Unit 2 Flashcards
slash and burn agriculture
*terraced feilds
*hunted/raised deer
*corn, beans, squash
* environmental damage
* drought
Mayan interaction
- crowded cities
- Royal family
- Big population
Mayan social
- City-States most rulers men
- wars for tribute, not territory
*Kings decended from gods
*no standing Armies
*decentralized government - women could rule if no men were in heir
Mayan government
*taxes Paid by crops and gov. labor
*tribute
Mayan economy
used limestone in religious buildings *god of moon (girl)
Human sacrifice
*ball games
* temples
Pyramids
*Polytheistic
* gods of sun, lain, corn
* Priests had great Power
Mayan culture
Astronomy
* Science
linked with religion
Accurate calendar
・ Zero
* lacked metal tools
Mayan technology
*chang’an-capital and cultural center
- land reforms
* Silk roads
*expansion
Han interaction
Civil service examination
* Pax Sinica
* Population growth
* scholars and beurocrats are highest in Society
*Patriarchy
* fidial Piety
Han social
Han Shin
*Imperial system
* emporer Gaozu
* civil service exam
*Strong centralized government
* Pax sinica
*Wudi
Han government
“Golden age
* Peasent class
* Agricultucal stability
* Iron + silk Production
* Steel production
* consolidated land under the elites
Han economy
contusanism /
*Dastsm
* Buddhism
* Mandate of heaven
* Confucianism
Han culture
metal factories
* chinese dictionary
* Paper
Han technology
*Great wall in the north
* Great canal
*location was good for trade
Qin interaction
Peasants could own land
* rich deacceases
* Patriarcy
life was creul
* Rebellion
* Spies
Qin social
Strong centralized government
*legalism, strict laws harsh punishment
* Моnarcy
* Shi hugandi
*expansion
* no free speech
Qin government
*Strong economy based on agriculture
*coiniage as common currency
Qin economy
*Standardized script
*legalism
* Mandate of heaven.
Qin culture
- Canals
*built a wall along the boarder (great wall of china) - Standardized weights / measurements
*roads
Qin technology
*smaller than Mauryan. Dynasty
* Mathura
* Pataliputra
*Icon
*Pillars of icon
Gupta interaction
Theft and burglary was rare
* Ethnic divercity
*hinduisan reinforces the social order of the castes
Gupta social
Decentralized rule
Invaded by the Huns ….
* favorable marriage
*more decentralized than Mauryan
* Chandragupta I (320-335 CE)
* divides into pradesha (provinces)
* Juditial tortuce not Practiced
* No capital punishment
Gupta government
Golden Age
* Trade
*Silk rood
* sea lanes
* Wealth flows into capital
* Small wachshops Produce goods
Gupta economy
Return to Hinduism
* Vedas
* vast number of languages
Golden age
* kaligasa:most famous sanskrit writer
*early game of chess
Gupta culture
Inoculations/ Vaccines
* medicine
*Setting of bones
* built free hospitalss
*Sterillization of wounds
*concept of 0
*Arabic numerals
* Astronomy
* Decimal system
Gupta technology
