AP World History Strayer Chapter 3 Flashcards

Chapter 3- Eurasian Empires

15778431467	Alexander the Great	Alexander III of Macedonia, conqueror of the Persian Empire and part of northwestern India.	0
15778431468	Ashoka	The most famous ruler of the Mauryan empire; he converted to Buddhism and tried to rule peacefully and with tolerance.	1
15778431469	Athenian Democracy	A radical form of direct democracy in which much of the free male population of Athens had the franchise and officeholders were chosen by lot.	2
15778431470	Caesar Augustus	The great-nephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar who emerged as sole ruler of the Roman state at the end of an extended period of civil war.	3
15778431471	Greco Persian War	Two major Persian invasions of Greece, in which the Persians were defeated on both land and sea each time.	4
15778431472	Han Dynasty	Dynasty that ruled China, creating a durable state based on Shihuangdi's state-building acheivement.	5
15778431473	Hellenistic Era	The period in which Greek culture spread widely into Eurasia in the kingdoms ruled by Alexander's political successors.	6
15778431474	Mauryan Empire	A major empire founded by Chandragupta that encompassed most of India and unified the Indian subcontinent.	7
15778431475	pax Romana	The "Roman Peace," a term typically used to denote the stability and prosperity of the early Roman Empire.	8
15778431476	Persian Empire	A major empire that expanded from the Iranian plateau to incorporate the Middle East from Egypt to India.	9
15778431477	Qin Shihuangdi	First emperor from the Qin that forcibly reunited China and established a strong and repressive state.	10
15778431478	Trung Trac	The older of two sisters that lead the Vietnamese Revolution. She lived from 12 - 43 C.E and rather than being captured in war after her troops were badly defeated, legend says she committed suicide in honor of her family.	11
15778431479	Empire	States, political systems that exercise coercive power; often multi-national, aggressive, and often conquer, rule and extract resources from other states.	12
15778431480	Imperial State	A state that imposes its will on other states politically, economically and socially.	13
15778431481	Persia government	imperial system with monarchs and governors with spies	14
15778431482	Persian culture	many different cultures	15
15778431483	Persian features	canal irrigation, imperial centers, coinage,	16
15778431484	Greek government	small competing city states with huge involvement in politics with citizenship and voting	17
15778431485	greek culture	shared same language and religion	18
15778431486	features greek	smelting of metals	19
15778431487	persia collapsed due to	alexander the great burning the capital	20
15778431488	greek collapsed due to	invasion of rome	21
15778431489	rome government	went from being republic with patricians(wealthy) and plebeians (poor) that voted to an empire	22
15778431490	rome culture	Christianity spread took gods from perisa and jewish had religious rituals and public buildings good gov=good laws	23
15778431491	rome features	had law code and brutal army as well as public works and latin alphabet	24
15778431492	rome collapsed	invade by Germanic speaking people , too big did not reassemble absence of bureaucratic tradition	25
15778431493	china government	at first qin with legalism then han with confusicainam son of heaven	26
15778431494	china culture	the great wall, buddhism assimilated non chinese people good gov=good men	27
15778431495	china features	had character for writing, lead to air pollution civil service system	28
15778431496	china collapsed	tension between castrated court and Confucian scholars, had disease and invaded by barbaric states did reassemble die to beucracy	29
15778431497	india government	towns of small republics had empires	30
15778431498	india culture	range of ethnic culutral and linguistic diversity but with distinct religion - hinduism and buddhism	31
15778431499	india features	had hospitals medicine math astronomy cotton textiles	32