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Question 1

Then, around 321 B.C.E. a new empire arose in India, and one that would come to be the largest in the country today. Spanning from the Indus River Valley eastward through the Ganges River Valley in southward through the Deccan Plateau

Answer 1

The Mauryan Empire

Question 2

The Mauryan Empire was founded by_______________, who unified the smaller Aryan Kingdom into a civilization.

Answer 2

Chandragupta Maurya

Question 3

The grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, who took the Empire to its greatest heights.

Answer 3

Ashoka Maury

Question 4

Stricken with disgust and filled with remorse for a very violent and bloody victory his forces claimed over the Kalinga in southeast India, Ashoka converted to____________

Answer 4

Buddhism

Question 5

Ashoka is also known for his________________, which were carved on you guessed it rock and pillars throughout the empire

Answer 5

Rock and Pillar Edicts

Question 6

However, between 375 and 315 CE, experienced a revival under Chandra Gupta II, known as

Answer 6

Chandra Gupta the Great

Question 7

The ___________ was more decentralized and smaller than its predecessor but it is often referred to as the golden age because it enjoyed relative peace and saw significant advances in the arts and sciences.

Answer 7

Gupta Empire

Question 8

They also devise a decimal system that uses the numerals 1 through 9 (which were defused to the Arabs and became known as ________)

Answer 8

Arabic numerals

Question 9

The Qin dynasty is the empire that connected separate fortification walls that eventually became the___________

Answer 9

Great Wall of China

Question 10

Qin Shihuangdi, also known as ________ was the dynasty’s first emperor, and he recentralized various feudal kingdoms that had split apart in the end of the Zhou dynasty; standardized all the laws, currencies weights, measures, and system of writing; and refuse to tolerate any dissent whatsoever

Answer 10

Qin Shi Huang

Question 11

What might surprise you, however, is that the dominant believe system of the Qin rulers was _______

Answer 11

Legalism

Question 12

During the ___________, the _______, large nomadic group from northern Asia who may have been Huns, invaded territories extending from China to Eastern Europe.

Answer 12

Ham Dynasty, the Xiongnu

Question 13

However, the Huns were much more successful in Europe then they were in China, largely due to the skills of_________ , Often called the warrior emperor, who greatly enlarged the Han Emperor to Central Asia

Answer 13

Wu Ti

Question 14

On account of the vast expanse of their empire, The delegated local administration of their provinces, or ________, to important people in the provinces.

Answer 14

Satrapies

Question 15

To improve transportation and communication across the vast empire, the Persians build a series of a long road. The longest was the_____________, which stretch some 1600 miles from the Persian Gulf to the Aegean Sea.

Answer 15

Great Royal Road

Question 16

The ________ are important because they came up with the concept of using coined money to conduct their trade rather than using the barter system, in which goods are exchange for other goods.

Answer 16

Lydians

Question 17

The _________ are important, first they became established powerful naval city state along the Mediterranean and, second because they developed a simple alphabet that used only 22 letters as opposed to more complexed cuneiform systems.

Answer 17

Phoenicians

Question 18

The ________ are significant because of their religious beliefs call Judaism. The _______ were the first Jews

Answer 18

Hebrews

Question 19

The two main city states were ______ and _______. One was the political, commercial, and cultural center of Greek civilization. The other was a agricultural and highly militaristic region.

Answer 19

Athens and Sparta

Question 20

________ (499-449bce) United all the Greek city state against the mutual enemy, Persia.

Answer 20

The Persian wars

Question 21

The golden age of________ (480-404bce) so Athens become a cultural powerhouse under the leadership of________.

Answer 21

Pericles

Question 22

Furthermore, it was under Pericles that Athens established _____________ with the other city states, in alliance against aggression from into common enemies

Answer 22

The Delian League

Question 23

In philosophy, we find the names many would regard as the most famous of all the ancient Greeks: ______,________, and ________

Answer 23

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

Question 24

After years of increasing tensions of trade dispute involving the city of Corinth pushed Athens and Sparta into the

Answer 24

Peloponnesian war

Question 25

The __________, under the rule of Philip the third of Macedon, who rain from 359 to 336 B.C.E., NV did Athens from the north in Concord the entire region

Answer 25

Macedonians

Question 26

Philip’s son, __________, Who was taught by Aristotle, widely expanded the Macedonian dominance

Answer 26

Alexander the Great

Question 27

Therefore, ________ - The culture, ideas, and pattern of life of classical Greece – didn’t parish as a result of the victories over Athens and Sparta; instead, it became to influence far beyond its original borders

Answer 27

Hellenism

Question 28

The social and political structure of the Roman Republic consisting of________( landowning men) and ________ (all other free men), and slaves.

Answer 28

Patricians and plebeians

Question 29

It didn’t take long for this conflict to escalate into full-fledged wars, which came to be called the

Answer 29

Punic wars

Question 30

The second Punic war begin with the attack by_________, A Carthaginian general considered one of the greatest military geniuses of all time

Answer 30

Hannibal

Question 31

The laws of Rome work codified and became known as the ___________ later these laws were extended to an international code that Rome applied to its conquered territories

Answer 31

The 12 tables of Rome

Question 32

The result was that the power of the senate weekend, ultimately to be transferred to three men who came to be known as the __________, Pompeii, Cruces and Julius Caesar

Answer 32

First triumvirate

Question 33

After the death of Julius Caesar,_________, comprised of Octavius, Mark Anthony and Lepidus, came to power

Answer 33

Second triumvirate

Question 34

Things didn’t improve the second time around. Power again shifted to one person_______, Who rose to power, assumed the name Augusta Cesar, and became emperor

Answer 34

Octavius

Question 35

With all these elements in place throughout the empire, stability returned to its people, and for 200 years they enjoyed a period of peace and prosperity known as the

Answer 35

Pax Romana

Question 36

Roman citizens were required to make sacrifices to traditional Roman gods. However, shortly after the reign of a Gustus, a new religion developed in the Mediterranean in Aegean regions, that religion was

Answer 36

Christianity

Question 37

Only when emperor________ himself issued the ______ in 313 CE did the persecution end. By 390 1CE Christianity had become the offical religion of the Roman Empire

Answer 37

Constantine… The edict of Milan

Question 38

The Hon dynasty was interrupted by the reign of________ 9 to 23 CE, who established the Xin Dynasty after seizing the throne from the rule of the Lui family, successfully using the believes of the Mandate of heaven to undermine them

Answer 38

Wang Mang

Question 39

In 285bce ________ had become the emperor. He attempted to deal with the increasing problems by dividing the Empire into two regions run by coemperores

Answer 39

Diocletian

Question 40

I have to rising to power in 306 CE, as a co emperor, _________ defeated his rivals and assumed it’s all control over the empire in 320 2C

Answer 40

Constantine

Question 41

He ordered the building of_________, at the site of Greek city byzantine, and in 340 C, this city became the capital of the united empire

Answer 41

Constantinople

Question 42

The sensitive practiced the Iranian faith of__________ and use that to consolidate their power

Answer 42

Zoroastrianism

Question 43

Trade routes were flourishing, bringing cultures, religions, and in beating tribes to constant contact with each other. Major trade routes over Lynn, such as the_________. From China to the Roman empire, took months to transverse

Answer 43

Silk road