Part 2 Flashcards
Classical civilizations began with invasions and ended with
Dislocations caused by invasions and internal decay
Classical differed from river valley civilizations in all of these ways EXCEPT:
Religiously, classic religions were largely monotheistic. Or atheistic
Economically, classical empires and cultures
Relied largely on ag but had considerable commercial contacts
During classical civilizations, cultures
Integrated large regions an diverse cultures
Classical cultures
Survived the collapse of their supporting empires and continued to influence later generations
Although the majority of people were sedentary agriculturalists durin the classical period,
Most of the earth was occupied by shifting cultivators, pastoral nomads, or hunter-gatherers
Historically, pastoral nomads
Lived on the grassy plains of the continents, where sedentary ag was extremely difficult
The single greatest influence on nomadic cultures was
The migratory patterns Of their flocks as determined by the environment
He social differentiation that occurred in past nomadic societies arose for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
Emphasis on individual skills
Nomadic peoples
Have been key agents of contact across greAt distances between sedentary peoples
All of these actions an responses typified contacts between sedentary an nomadic peoples EXCEPT:
Acceptance of each other an each other’s ways of life
Based on historical evidence, it seems likely that pastoral nomads such as the indi Europeans, the Aryan’s, Hittites, Hyksos, and Zhou, and Qin peoples of china overcame sedentary peoples through
Superior technologies associated with horses, iron, and chariots
The Chinese explained the rebellions, civil wars, and invasions as
The rulers loss of the mandate Of heaven
Confucianism, daoism, and legalism
Originated as response to societal problems during times if disruption
Confucian social relationships
Taught it practitioners to seek inner harmony with the natural way
The Qin dynasty alienate all of these groups EXCEPT:
Trained beaurocrats, who no longer administered gov offices
During the Han Dynasty, scholar officials
Instituted a system of examination to prepare professional civil servants
The major difference between the govs of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and later Chinese dynasties was the
Increasing centralization an control within the state
Although they Baird greatly in wealth and social status in china
The commoners, esp the peasants remained the largest group
Chinese women in he classical age
At all class levels were lag ally subordinated to fathers and husbands
Despite their material success an increased wealth,
Merchant in china ranked below peasants and had little societal influence
Chinese belief systems differ from Hinduism an polytheism most in
Their secular outlooks on the world
