Rise Of Empirers

Question 0

Aegean Sea

Answer 0

Sea between modern day turkey and Greece, Minoans trade route

Question 1

Minoans 2000-1400BC

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Knossos

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Minoans city capital.

Excavation revealed advanced thriving culture

Question 3

King Minos

Answer 3

Of Knossos, kept monster in a labyrinth

Question 4

Collapse of Minoans

Answer 4

• overpopulation
• natural disaster, volcano
• invaders, Mycenaeans

Question 5

Phoenicians

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

Question 6

Sennacherib

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Fierce Assyrian King& emperor builder

Question 7

Assyrian military

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

Question 8

Assyrian rule

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

Question 9

Nineveh

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Capital city of Assyrian empire the largest city of its day

Question 10

King Ashurbanipal

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

Question 11

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

Question 13

Chaldean empire

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falls, to Persians, they adopt Assyrian inventions

Question 14

Cyrus the great

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

Question 15

Cyrus cylinder

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Worlds first declaration of human rights

Question 16

Cambyses

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Cyrus’s son, conquers Egypt but rules unwisely

Question 17

Darius

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

Question 18

Satraps

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Local governs, rulers

Question 19

Royal road

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Made communication within empire easier, issued coin for trade

Question 20

Zoroaster

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

Question 21

Confucius

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Scholar wanted to resort order, harmony and good government

Question 22

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

Question 24

Confucianism

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Is an ethical system of right and wrong, not religion.

Chinese government and social order

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Laozi

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Natural order to life.

Question 26

Daoism

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Philosophy is to understand nature and be free of desire

Influenced sciences

Question 27

Legalism

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The use of law to restore order… Teaches obedience.

Question 28

I Ching

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Book of changes

Good advice and common sense

Question 29

Yin yang

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2 powers represent Rhythms of universe.
Yin: cold dark soft mysterious
Yang: warm bright hard clear
explains how we fit in

Question 30

Qin dynasty

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Replaces Zhou dynasty in 3rd century.

Question 31

Shi haangdi

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Unifies China, first emperor, ends fighting.
Creates 36 districts
Legalist prime minister murders Confucian scholars and burns books

Question 32

Autocracy

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A government with unlimited power

Question 33

Great Wall

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Emperor forces peasants to build Great Wall to keep invaders out

Question 34

Terracotta warriors

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Protects shi tomb

Question 35

Han dynasty formation

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Son Qin emperor, peasants revolt loses the throne to rebel leader, Han dynasty begins after