AP World Era 2 Key Concept 2.2

Question 1

The number and size of what and what grew dramatically by imposing political unity on areas where previously there had been competing states?
Examples?

Answer 1

Key states and empires
Southwest Asia: Persian
East Asia: Qin and Han
Mediterranean region: Phoenicians, Greeks, Hellenistic and Roman Empires
Mesoamerica: Teotihuacan, Mayan city-states
Andean South America: Moche

Question 2

What and what developed new techniques of imperial administration based, in part, on the success of earlier political forms?
Examples?

Answer 2

Empires and states
Administrative institutions (Centralized governments, elaborated legal systems and bureaucracies)
Imperial military techniques (Diplomacy, Developing supply lines
Building fortification defensive walls, and roads)
Success of empire-trade

Question 3

Unique what and what developed in imperial societies in Afro-Eurasia and the Americas?
Examples?

Answer 3

Social and economic dimensions
Cities (Persepolis, Rome, Teotihuacan)
Social structures
Food production (Slavery, rents and tributes)
Patriarchy

Question 4

What empires created political, cultural, and administrative difficulties that they could not manage, which eventually led to their decline, collapse, and transformation into successor empires or states?
Examples?

Answer 4

The Roman, Han, Persian, Mauryan, and Gupta empires
Environmental damage (deforestation)
External problems (Han China and the Xiongnu)