Rise Of Empirers Flashcards

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Aegean Sea

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Sea between modern day turkey and Greece, Minoans trade route

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Minoans 2000-1400BC

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Group of powerful seafaring people, island of Crete. 
•Bull leaping sport 
•wrestling, boxing 
•painted pottery 
•running water, plumbing 
•Europe's 1st paved roads
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Knossos

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Minoans city capital.

Excavation revealed advanced thriving culture

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King Minos

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Of Knossos, kept monster in a labyrinth

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Collapse of Minoans

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  • overpopulation
  • natural disaster, volcano
  • invaders, Mycenaeans
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Phoenicians

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Most powerful seafaring & trades people. 
•originated in Lebanon 
•settled around Mediterranean 
•developed writing and communication 
With phonetic symbols
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Sennacherib

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Fierce Assyrian King& emperor builder

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Assyrian military

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Iron weapons 
Coordinates attacks 
Engineering skills 
Harsh forces 
Also killed, enslaved and banished people
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Assyrian rule

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Creates central authority over local governors of dependent regions, collected taxes and tribute

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Nineveh

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Capital city of Assyrian empire the largest city of its day

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King Ashurbanipal

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Gathered many writing tables from lands, builds library with 20000 tablets.
Epic of Gilgamesh,

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Army of Medes & Chaldeans

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Destroy Nineveh, library survives

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Nebuchadnezzar

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Chaldean King who rebuilt Babylon
Hanging gardens 1 of 7 WOW
Built tall ziggurats,
Made discoveries about solar system

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Chaldean empire

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falls, to Persians, they adopt Assyrian inventions

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Cyrus the great

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Persian King cryus conquers neighboring lands, governs with tolerance towards conquered people, honors there customs

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Cyrus cylinder

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Worlds first declaration of human rights

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Cambyses

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Cyrus’s son, conquers Egypt but rules unwisely

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Darius

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A noble of the ruling dynasty
Brought peace and stability
Expanded to India
Divided into 20 areas

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Satraps

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Local governs, rulers

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Royal road

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Made communication within empire easier, issued coin for trade

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Zoroaster

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Persian thinker who developed a new religion
Good vs. evil
Influenced Judaism, Christianity, Islam

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Confucius

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Scholar wanted to resort order, harmony and good government

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Filia piety

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Respect for parents & ancestors

Hopes to reform society by promoting good government

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Bureaucracy

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A trained civil service who ran the government

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Confucianism
Is an ethical system of right and wrong, not religion. | Chinese government and social order
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Laozi
Natural order to life.
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Daoism
Philosophy is to understand nature and be free of desire | Influenced sciences
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Legalism
The use of law to restore order... Teaches obedience.
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I Ching
Book of changes | Good advice and common sense
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Yin yang
2 powers represent Rhythms of universe. Yin: cold dark soft mysterious Yang: warm bright hard clear *explains how we fit in*
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Qin dynasty
Replaces Zhou dynasty in 3rd century.
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Shi haangdi
Unifies China, first emperor, ends fighting. Creates 36 districts Legalist prime minister murders Confucian scholars and burns books
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Autocracy
A government with unlimited power
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Great Wall
Emperor forces peasants to build Great Wall to keep invaders out
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Terracotta warriors
Protects shi tomb
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Han dynasty formation
Son Qin emperor, peasants revolt loses the throne to rebel leader, Han dynasty begins after