AP World History Chapter 3 Flashcards

10948167645	Two most famous monarchs from Persian Empire	Cyrus and Darius	0
10948177923	How far did the Persian empire stretch?	Egypt to India	1
10948356784	This empire ruled hundreds of small city states individually.	Greek Empire	2
10948812841	What was the Persian empire's imperial system based on?	Previous empires such as Babylonian and Assyrian.	3
10949720820	Classical Greece was the foundation of...	Western/ European civilization	4
10948160347	A persian Dynasty that ruled from 553 to 330 BCE and used the imperial system?	Achaemenid	5
10948193759	This empire was very diverse	Persian	6
10948218621	In the persian Empire, kings could only be approached through....	an elaborate ritual	7
10949639088	What caused the Golden Age of Greece, and what temple was built during this period?	Victory of the Greco- Persian war, and Parthenon	8
10949632069	The victory of the Greco- Persian war allowed for even the poor to demand full citizenship rights since....	They rowed the ships that brought them to victory	9
10949745791	What caused the East/ West divide?	The Greco- Persian war	10
10948376671	Because of smelting metals, this empire had major deforestation and erosion.	Greek Empire	11
10948230662	What empire required sacred fires to be put out, people to shave their heads, and horses manes to be cut short when the king died?	The Persian Empire	12
10948251075	What famous monarch in the Persian Empire caught a nobleman with his wife and then killed him and his entire cult?	Darius	13
10948255863	Satraps	Persian governors that were in charge of the empires 23 provinces	14
10948272571	Imperial spies in the Persian Empire were known as...	The eyes and ears of the king	15
10948283210	What Monarch allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem?	Cyrus	16
10948285913	Persians took on customs of...	foreigners	17
10949593635	Greeks had to experiment with politics in Athens due to ________ _______ which almost lead to a ______ ___	class conflict, civil war	18
10948297620	This empire had standardized coinage and predictable taxes.	The Persian Empire	19
10948326722	The _________ ________ facilitated communication and commerce in the Persian Empire	Royal Road	20
10948452039	To temporarily suspend their conflict in the rivaling city states in the Greek empire, every four years...	They held the Olympic games	21
10948337961	These two cities reflected the power and wealth of the Persians.	Susa and Persepolis	22
10949252939	Unlike the Persian empire that expanded through conquest, Greek settlement was more of....	settling in distant places	23
10948410574	Greek population compared to Persian	Greek Empire was considerably smaller	24
10948431457	City states in the _______ empire were incredibly independent but ________________ and worshipped the same gods	Greek, spoke the same language	25
10948475377	The four major rivaling city states in the Greek empire	Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and Corinth	26
10948493467	Most striking difference between Persia and Greece	Politics	27
10949097974	What sustained a rich agricultural economy in Persia?	An elaborate underground irrigation system	28
10948541661	What did empires do?	Stimulated exchange of ideas, cultures, and values, and allowed for economic and aristocratic development, commercial exchange and cultural mixing	29
10948775825	How did empires help define masculinity?	Conquests generated warrior culture that gave men prominence that rules imperial states.	30
10949002856	Kings in _______ were absolute monarchs. They werent even afraid to kill those of ________ _______	Persia, High ranks	31
10949134583	This famous monarch inscribed commentary on what he had set in motion on the foundation of Persepolis	Darius	32
10948851834	Tyrants were usually known as ________ but _______ rulers and usually supported by ________ class to challenge the ________	strong, good, lower, wealthy	33
10949227935	The Greeks called themselves...	Hellenes	34
10949188017	Persians and Greeks were both _______- ___________ people	Indo- European	35
10949203713	This Greek city-state was known for Military endeavors and vested political authority in the "Council of Elders."	Sparta	36
10949259962	Which was more democratic, Athens or Sparta?	Athens	37
10949279772	In Athens ____ ____________ could take part in assembly	all citizens	38
10949554095	Persians came to represent ______ and _______ Greece represented _______ and _________	Asia, despotism Europe, and freedom	39
10949297674	As a result of class conflict, the leader, _________, broke the hold of _______ _______________ _________	Solon, small aristocratic families	40
10949362408	______ abolished debt slavery in Athens	Solon	41
10949374001	Compared to Sparta, Athens public office was....	open to a wider group of men	42
10949400059	_______ became the center of political life in Athens	assembly	43
10949409717	In Athens the democracy was _______ rather than ________	direct, representative	44
10949434657	_________ slaves, and __________ had no citizen rights in Athens.	Female, foreigners	45
10949460293	Regrading the Greco- Persian war, confrontation occurred because of...	the patterns of expansion	46
10949478700	_______ Greeks came under _______ control and with support of _____, some of these settlements revolted	Ionian, Persian, Athens	47
10949760201	What caused the Peloponnesian war?	After the Greeks victory in the Peloponnesian war, Athens wanted to solidify their position, angering the other city-states.	48
10949794254	Who was involved in the Peloponnesian war, who won, and what was a result of this?	Sparta and Athens, Sparta won, city-states were weakened.	49
10949494513	Persians set out to destroy the Greeks ____ times in 10 years but somehow Greeks survived.	Two	50
10949512552	Victory of the Greco- Persian war had a major impact on ________.	Athens	51
10949520295	Greeks won the Greco- Persian war because....	They were fighting for freedom and the courage to fight a mighty empire.	52
10949833078	_________ take over achieved Greek unification after the Peloponnesian war. This was against the _______	Macedonian, Persians	53
10948309655	The _______ built a canal that liked the ________ to the ____ sea. This expanded commerce and ___________	Persians, Nile, Red Sea, communication	54
10949853635	What Alexander the great so great?	Lead one of the greatest military feats of the ancient world. He created a Greek empire from Egypt and Anatolia to the West of Afghanistan and India. Persia was completely destroyed. Greatest accomplishment: dissemination of Greek Culture (Hellenistic Era)	55
10949900746	What happened after Alexander the Great died?	His empire was divided into three kingdoms that were ruled by Macedonian generals.	56
10949956410	Alexandria was located in _____. Very different from Greek City States in __________ _________ and non-_________	Egypt, cultural diversity, and non-independence	57
10950009318	Alexandria was part of a large conquest in states:__________ empire in Egypt, _________ empire in Persia	Ptolemaic, Seleucid	58
10948512937	What is an empire?	States political systems that exercise coercive power but the term is usually reserved for larger states that conquer, rule, and extract resources from other states	59
10950042599	Why did Greek cultural influence fade?( Hellenistic Era)	Kingdoms that promoted it weakened and vanished	60
10950275155	In Rome, what caused the establishment of a republic?	Aristocrats overthrew the king and established one	61
10950295284	In Rome, wealthy __________ dominated. Consuls ruled with the advice of the Roman _________.	patricians, senate	62
10950315678	Plebeians	common people	63
10950321005	Conflict with __________ led to changes in Rome	Plebeians	64
10950356210	Plebeians had some protection in Rome, office of _________ would represent them and allow them to block unfavorable _________.	tribune, legislation	65
10950373768	Rome was known as....	master of the mediterranean	66
10950383671	Rome's __________ wars with ________ gave Rome control of North Africa	Punic, Carthage	67
10950397945	Rome controlled _____ and the mediterranean, _____ and __________.	France, Spain, Britain	68
10950408835	The Roman army was...	well trained, well fed, and well rewarded	69
10950419897	Warfare made Rome what kind of society?	Warrior	70
10950433427	Men had the right to kill who?	their wives, and slavess	71
10950456113	By the _______ ___, wealth and the breakdown of other Roman social structure tended to give women more ___________.	common era, freedom	72
10950485371	Wealth gave military leaders ability to...	buy armies	73
10950489883	_______ bought armies from the poor	Caesar	74
10950495230	What ended the republic in Rome?	civil war	75
10950500177	Who was Rome's first emperor?	Octavian Augustus	76
10950506888	What did Octavian do?	Tried to keep vestiges of Republican ways	77
10950515257	What is the Pax Romana?	Roman Peace period when Rome was at its most powerful	78
10950526010	Rome was a new empire while China...	was a restoration	79
10950540138	In what was was Rome generous to former enemies?	Granted them Roman citizenship or treated them as allies.	80
10950561073	China had fallen into a state of ______ ________ ( __ kingdoms)	warring factions, 7	81
10950572004	Who succeeded in reunifying China?	Qin Shihuangdi (Qin Dynasty)	82
10950588499	Who introduced legalism?	Qin Dynasty	83
10950598297	Who started the Great Wall of China and introduced uniform system of weights, measures, and currency?	Shihuangdi	84
10950621506	Who came after the Qin dynasty and introduced Confucianism?	Han dynasty	85
10950626659	What else did the Han dynasty do?	Consolidated China's imperial state and established political patterns that would go into the 20th century.	86
10950642387	In what way were the Roman and Chinese Empire similar?	Both though they were the bee's knees, public works,and both used supernatural to authorize their rule.	87
10950767856	Dominant religion in Rome? Dominant religion in China?	Christianity, Buddhism	88
10950774817	Where did Buddhism originate?	India	89
10950778439	When did people turn to Buddhism in China?	After the fall of the Han dynasty	90
10950786932	Romans where the ______ of their empire while Chinese were the _______ of theirs	minority, majority	91
10950822486	China assimilation, they became _______ Chinese. While in Rome, They reluctantly on offered _________.	culturally, citizenship	92
10950839192	Romans regarded Greek culture as...	superior	93
10950861953	Chinese did not use latin sounds in their language, instead _________ which could allow even different dialects to understand each other through dialect. This is why Romans maintained their_________ ___________.	characters, cultural identity	94
10950885651	Both Roman and Chinese left....	major impact on their enviroment	95
10950892245	What is the reason for the collapse of many empires?	too big, overcrowded, diseases sometimes, expensive, and limited resources	96
10950924964	__________ India empire broke apart after _________'s death	Mauryan, Ashoka	97