Rise Of Empirers Flashcards
Aegean Sea
Sea between modern day turkey and Greece, Minoans trade route
Minoans 2000-1400BC
Group of powerful seafaring people, island of Crete. •Bull leaping sport •wrestling, boxing •painted pottery •running water, plumbing •Europe's 1st paved roads
Knossos
Minoans city capital.
Excavation revealed advanced thriving culture
King Minos
Of Knossos, kept monster in a labyrinth
Collapse of Minoans
- overpopulation
- natural disaster, volcano
- invaders, Mycenaeans
Phoenicians
Most powerful seafaring & trades people. •originated in Lebanon •settled around Mediterranean •developed writing and communication With phonetic symbols
Sennacherib
Fierce Assyrian King& emperor builder
Assyrian military
Iron weapons Coordinates attacks Engineering skills Harsh forces Also killed, enslaved and banished people
Assyrian rule
Creates central authority over local governors of dependent regions, collected taxes and tribute
Nineveh
Capital city of Assyrian empire the largest city of its day
King Ashurbanipal
Gathered many writing tables from lands, builds library with 20000 tablets.
Epic of Gilgamesh,
Army of Medes & Chaldeans
Destroy Nineveh, library survives
Nebuchadnezzar
Chaldean King who rebuilt Babylon
Hanging gardens 1 of 7 WOW
Built tall ziggurats,
Made discoveries about solar system
Chaldean empire
falls, to Persians, they adopt Assyrian inventions
Cyrus the great
Persian King cryus conquers neighboring lands, governs with tolerance towards conquered people, honors there customs
Cyrus cylinder
Worlds first declaration of human rights
Cambyses
Cyrus’s son, conquers Egypt but rules unwisely
Darius
A noble of the ruling dynasty
Brought peace and stability
Expanded to India
Divided into 20 areas
Satraps
Local governs, rulers
Royal road
Made communication within empire easier, issued coin for trade
Zoroaster
Persian thinker who developed a new religion
Good vs. evil
Influenced Judaism, Christianity, Islam
Confucius
Scholar wanted to resort order, harmony and good government
Filia piety
Respect for parents & ancestors
Hopes to reform society by promoting good government
Bureaucracy
A trained civil service who ran the government
Confucianism
Is an ethical system of right and wrong, not religion.
Chinese government and social order
Laozi
Natural order to life.
Daoism
Philosophy is to understand nature and be free of desire
Influenced sciences
Legalism
The use of law to restore order… Teaches obedience.
I Ching
Book of changes
Good advice and common sense
Yin yang
2 powers represent Rhythms of universe.
Yin: cold dark soft mysterious
Yang: warm bright hard clear
explains how we fit in
Qin dynasty
Replaces Zhou dynasty in 3rd century.
Shi haangdi
Unifies China, first emperor, ends fighting.
Creates 36 districts
Legalist prime minister murders Confucian scholars and burns books
Autocracy
A government with unlimited power
Great Wall
Emperor forces peasants to build Great Wall to keep invaders out
Terracotta warriors
Protects shi tomb
Han dynasty formation
Son Qin emperor, peasants revolt loses the throne to rebel leader, Han dynasty begins after
