Key Factors Of Rise And Decline

Question 1

Rome

Answer 1

Conquered by the etruscans and overthrown by roman republic

Question 2

Etruscans

Rome

Answer 2

Modified Greek civilization
Writing
Religious practices
Engineering skills

Question 3

Clans

Rome

Answer 3

Groups or families

Question 4

Nobles (patricians)

Rome

Answer 4

Fathers
Privileged class functioned as advisory council to king and had certain political rights

Question 5

Family unit

Rome

Answer 5

Family itself
Free clients
Slaves

Question 6

Rome religion

Answer 6

Animalistic religion

Question 7

Rome household religion

Answer 7

Household gods (lares & penates)
Protect the household
Ancestors worshipped and death masks maintained

Question 8

Establishment of roman republic

Answer 8

Desire to be free of Etruscans
Desire to put an end to tyranny of last king
Kind of political evolution that occurred elsewhere as the noble class wanted to cast aside control of the monarch and establish aristocratic form of government

Question 9

Rome to conquer Italy

Answer 9

Center of peninsula
Army
Disunity of enemies
Imperialism- self-government to local people
Disciplined family structure
Superior form of government- the republic

Question 10

Roman written law rights to common people

Answer 10

Right to popular assemble
Creation of tribunes to protect rights of all citizens
Creation of special new officials who were to make government fairer and more efficient

Question 11

Roman hortensian law

Answer 11

Nobles and commoners to intermarry and permitted commoners to hold public offices

Question 12

Decline of the republic

Answer 12

Not have infrastructure to absorb conquered people
Political decay
Vast economic and social change
Military failure
Civil war erupted
Taxation
Government oppression
Corrupt resident government officials

Question 13

The first triumvirate

End of the roman republic

Answer 13

Caesar, Pompey, Crassus.
Caesar attempt to establish dictatorship
Caesar made many reforms, including reducing power of senate, but killed in senate

Question 14

The second triumvirate

The end of roman republic

Answer 14

Octavian, mark Antony, Lepidus
Octavian emerged victorious from ensuring power struggle and became ruler of Rome. Octavian established “disguised monarchy” share power with senate, though he withheld most of the power

Improved government
Extended citizenship rights to all roman soldiers

Question 15

Roman Empire contributions

Answer 15

• Peace and prosperity
• Codification of roman law
• Unified empire allowed self-government to component city-states
• Introduction of idea of separation of powers and popular sovereignty
• Development of “science” of public administration
• Tax collection methods
• Extensive civil-service program
• Tolerance and granting of citizenship rights to all inhabitants
• Engineering and construction of excellent roads, bridges, aqueducts, and sanitation systems
• Construction of massive buildings
• Preservation of Greek artistic techniques
• Development of education
• Refinement of rhetoric
• Literature
• Extension of philosophy in Greek tradition

Question 16

Political decline of Roman Empire

Answer 16

Anarchy and military emperors led to war and destruction

“Divine right” absolute monarchy, new imperial bureaucracy, new administrative divisions to lessen burden of ruling

Question 17

Economic decline of Roman Empire

Answer 17

Wasteful agricultural methods
Decline of commerce
Skilled workers bound to jobs and forced to accept government wages and prices
Lack of productivity and inadequate investment of capital
Draining of gold from western part of empire

Question 18

Biological, ecological, and social decline of Roman Empire

Answer 18

Deforestation
Bad agricultural methods
Diseases
Earthquakes
Immorality
Brutal treatment of masses in cities
Decay of pagan beliefs and roman ideas with rise of Christianity

Question 19

Han dynasty

Answer 19

Founded by Lou clan family
Greatest periods in Chinese history
China officially Confucian state
Empire prosperous and commerce flourished

Question 20

Qin dynasty

Answer 20

Emperor Qin shi hang

Question 21

Han dynasty revolts

Answer 21

Peasants
Prisoners
Soldiers
Descendants of nobles of “six warring states”
Divided the country into 19 states
Five years of war followed

Question 22

Han dynasty emperor

Answer 22

Liu bang (emperor Gao)- Consolidate his power and then to consolidate the empire

Question 23

Han dynasty government

Answer 23

Reduced taxation
reduce the governments control over the lives of people
created stability

Question 24

Emperor wu

Answer 24

Let the most prosperous period of the dynasty
Fought back
Made china a Confucian state
Sent envoy to the west and pioneered Silk Road
Gave control of land to merchants

Question 25

Accomplishments of Han dynasty

Answer 25

Strong military 
westward expansion 
Secure caravan traffic
Tributary System 
Silk Road
Confucian state
paper invention 
literacy and artistic revival

Question 26

Accomplishments of Han dynasty

Answer 26

Restricting coining of metal to the government first dictionary
Length of the solar year
observation of sunspots
eclipses natural phenomena
artistic carving in stone depicted realistic action
Making of mirrors glass and lacquered objects
introduction of Buddhism into China

Question 27

Han dynasty rapid decline after wu’s death.

Wang Mang

Answer 27

seized throne and ruled as emperor after wu

Introduce dramatic innovations- unpopular with rich
Reforms- ending slavery, dividing large estates, price fixing

Question 28

Later Han rulers

Answer 28

Weak
Incompetent

Taoist red turbans- contributed to decline of dynasty. Further weakening resulted from internal corruption and political infighting.

Question 29

Han dynasty ends

Answer 29

Captured by the Huns