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Ch. 7 Flashcards

1
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Who founded the Mauryan Empire and who was its greatest ruler

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Chandragupta Majrya and then Ashoka Maurya

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Ashoka Maurya converted to what religion because of his disgust with is bloody military victories

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Buddhism

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What is Ashoka Maurya most known for. This edicts reminded the Muryans to life genius lives

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Rock and Pillar Edicts

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4
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What Indian Empire took place from 321 to approximately 180 BCE

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Mauryan Empire

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5
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What Indian dynasty took place in 320 to 550 CE

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Gupta

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What was different between the Mauryan Dynasty and the Gupta Dynasty in India

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The Gupta empire was more decentralized and smaller but is known as the golden age because of the peace and developments of the arts and sciences

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7
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What developments did Gupta mathematicians make

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Developed concepts of pi and zero, they devised a decimal system that used the numbers 1 through 9. Hinduism became the major religion again which meant the society structure was very rigid.

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8
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Wo took down the Gupta Dynasty

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Which Huns

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9
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What Dynasty came after the Zhou dynasty during 221 to around 209 B.C.E.

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Qin Dynasty

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10
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Who was the first emperor of the Qin dynasty

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Qin Shi Huang

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11
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What dynasty in China began the Great Wall

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Qin Dynasty

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12
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What did the ruler of the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang, do

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Re centralized feudal kingdoms

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What was the major belief system in Qin China

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Legalism

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What was the effect of the Civil Service Examinations being introduced in Han China

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The consequence was a government bureaucracy that was highly skilled and that contributed to stability in the system of government for centuries

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15
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In Han China, what were the civil service examinations based on

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The teachings of Confucius

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16
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From approximately 2000 BCE to around 500 CE what two Mediterranean civilizations dominated the region

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Rome and Greece

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17
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Civilization expanded by conquering the early ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia, the Babylonians, the Lydians, the Phoenicians, and the Egyptians

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The Persian Empire

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18
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What did the Persians do to control the provinces, or Satrapies, in their vast empire

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They assigned a governor, or Satrap

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19
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What was the longest source or transportation and communication in the Persian Empire

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Great Royal Road

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20
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Why are the Lydians important

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They came up with the concept of using coined money to conduct trade rather than using the barter system

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21
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Why are the Phoenicians important

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First, the established powerful naval city states all along the Mediterranean and second, they developed a simple alphabet that used only 22 letters as opposed to the much more complex cuneiform system

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22
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Why are the Hebrews important

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Because of their monotheistic beliefs in Judaism

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23
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What were the two main city states in Ancient Greece

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Athenians Sparta

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24
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What were the three main groups each polis was consisted of in Ancient Greece

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Citizens, free people with no political rights, noncitizens

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25
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Because of their open debates and civic decisions what is Athens

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The first democracy

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26
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Athenians who were aristocrats who worked to create the democracy in Athens and to ensure fair, equal, and open participation

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Draco and Solon

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27
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What enabled Greeks to develop their democracy

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Slavery because Greek citizens found themselves with free time to meet and vote and to create great works of art and philosophy

28
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What followed the Persian Wars, such weere wars fought between the Greeks and Persians

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Greek entered the Golden Age of Pericles

29
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Established by Pericles in Athens. An alliance against aggression aggression from its common enemies

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Delian League

30
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The famous ancient Greeks believed that truth could be discerned through rational thought an deliberate and careful observation and that virtue and the quest for goodness would lead to internal peace and happiness

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Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

31
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Who were the Greeks who are known for mat and science

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Archimedes, Hippocrates, Euclid, and Pythagoras

32
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What two works were written by Homer

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Iliad and a odyssey

33
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What two civilizations was the Peloponnesian War in and who won

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Between Athens and Sparta in Greece. Sparta won but didn’t destroy Athens out of respect for their role in the Persian War

34
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Conquered Athena and a parts of Greece, but led by Philip III, they preserved the Greek culture

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Macedonians

35
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The culture, ideals, and pattern of life of Classical Greece

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Hellenism

36
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Greatest Macedonian leader who was taught by Aristotle and expanded the Macedonian empire across Persia and more

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Alexander the Great

37
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What here the land owning noblemen called in Rome

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Patricians

38
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What were all other free men called in Rome

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Plebeians

39
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Hw was the roman government set up

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A representative republic. The main governing body was made up if two distinct groups: the senate and the assembly and two consuls who were elected by the assembly

40
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The codified laws in Rome where the concept of innocent until EpiPen guilt originated

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Twelve Tables of Rome

41
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Who made up the first triumvirate of Rome

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Pompey, Crassus, and Julius Caesar

42
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Who made up the second triumvirate of Rome

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Marc Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus

43
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What were famous roman works

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Ovids Metamorphoses and Viegils Aeneid

44
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What did the Edict of Milan do, which was issued by emperor Constantine

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Stopped Christian persecution in Rome

45
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What was unique about the Mayans

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They used war to get slaves, not riches. They also made the Mayan calendar based in a number system that included zero

46
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What empires took place in the Classical Period (200-600 CE)

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Han China, the Gupta Empire in India, the western part of the Roma empire in the Mediterranean, the Greeks, the Maya’s

47
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What happened after the Han Dynasty in China fell

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Wang Mang came into power and began the Xin Dynasty which was horrible and later collapsed. The Han dynasty was resorted by collapsed again in 220 CE, dividing China into separate kingdoms

48
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Wow restored western Rome after it fell for the first time

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Diocletian but them after he retired civil wars broke out, Constantine then got sole control over the entire emperor but after his death, it was divided again.

49
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Who practiced polytheism

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Ancient Mesopotamian and Mediterranean Empires

50
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Who practiced Confucianism

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Developed for the Chinese culture and was practiced throughout China from around 499 BCE onward

51
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Not an actual religion, it is a political and social philosophy. Focused on five fundamental relationships: ruler and subject, parent and child, husband and wife, older brother and younger brother, and friend and friend

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Confucianism

52
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Chinese practiced it around 500 BCE onward. Founded by Lao-Tzu and this belief system is based in an elusive concept regarding an eternal principal governing all the working of the world.

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Dao

53
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What is the difference between Confucianism and Daoism

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Confucianism deals with an orderly society. Daoism focuses on helping people live in harmony with nature

54
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Practiced in China, specifically during the Qin Dynasty.

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Legalism

55
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What is the difference between Confucianism and legalism

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Confucianism relies in the fundamental goodness of human beings, whereas legalism presupposes that people are fundamentally evil

56
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Practiced by the various cultures of the Indian subcontinent. It began with the Aryan invaders in India. Has the Vedas and the Upanishads and has a harsh caste system

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Hinduism

57
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What do Buddhists follow

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The Four Noble Truth and the Eightfold Path

58
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What two movements did Buddhism split up into

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Theravada, Hinayana, and Mahayana

59
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After Mohammad, founder of Islam, died, who became in charge

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Abu Bakr

60
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What kind of government led Islam

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A theocracy which is a government ruled by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regard as being divinely guided

61
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Who ruled the theocracy in Islam

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The caliph, or caliphate

62
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The dynasty that would enlarge the Islamic empire and intensify the conduct with the Byzantine and Persian empires for almost a century.

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Umayyad dynasty

63
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What were the two camps the Muslims slip up into and why did they break up

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Shia and the Sunni. They disagreed of over the right successor of the Umayyad dynasty should be.

64
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This Muslim camp believed that Mohammad’s son in law, Ali, was the rightful heir to the empire

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Shia

65
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This Muslim camp believes that the leaders of the empire should be drawn from a broad base of the people

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Sunnis

66
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What dynasty replaced the Umayyad dynasty

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The Abbasid dynasty (750-1258 CE)

67
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What are the two first empires in India

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Mauryan Empire and then the Gupta Empire

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