unit 3

Question 1

how did Rome grow in size?

Answer 1

through conquest and trade

Question 2

Identify one-way geography of Rome was different than Greece?

Answer 2

Rome was was very flat and Greece had a lot of mountains

Question 3

What geographic factors made it possible for the Romans to unite the Italian peninsula?

Answer 3

Flat plains and the Mediteranian Sea, there weren’t many moutains

Question 4

Describe the location of the Mediterranean sea complex.

Answer 4

located in the Mediteratian sea south of Europe. connects Africa, Euroupe, and Asia

Question 5

Which body of water helped merchants trade their goods?

Answer 5

Mediteranian sea and Indian Ocean

Question 6

What were the Indus River Valley civilizations two largest settlements and what made them more sophisticated than other settlements at that time?

Answer 6

• Harapa and Mohenjo Daro

- They were more sophisticated because they had a grid and dranage system

Question 7

What geographic features impacted the rise of the classical civilizations in India? how did those geographic features impact the civilizations?

Answer 7

Rivers: (Indus and Ganges) good farming, good trade, good transportation
Himilayas: created protection

Question 8

Describe the location of ancient Greece

Answer 8

• located in southeastern Europe

- 3 sides surrounded by water (peninsula) Agean, Lonian, and Med. sea

Question 9

What effect did the Punic wars have on Rome’s dominance over other regions?

Answer 9

Rome defeated Carthrage gained full control over sicilly, gained even more territory gainning almost absolute dominance over the whole region

Question 10

Who fought in the Punic wars ?

Answer 10

Carthrage and Rome

Question 11

Who was Alexander the Great and how did he gain power?

Answer 11

Great Genera who was the Son of King Philip the 2nd and was known for never loosing a battel,became a ruler of rome.
he gained power by conquest/war.

Question 12

How did the Punic wars begin?

Answer 12

Carthrage and Rome were always at odds but the war started because they both wanted full control over sicilly (which they both partially owned)

Question 13

Was Athen’s a true democracy ? why or why not?

Answer 13

No! because the mojority of people in socioty (80%) were no able to vote. And there was no freedome of speech in socioty. If you expressed an opinion that was diffrent you were exciled for over 10 years.

Question 14

who was shi Huangdi? What was Chna like politically before Shi Haungdi’s rule and how did it change once he began his rule?

Answer 14

-the Ruler of the Quin Dynasty
before his rule: China was divided at at war
after: He united China, expanded trade and territory. However his opresive ways still created a lot of suffering.

Question 15

How did legalism help Shi Haungdi gain and maintain power?

Answer 15

Legalism had very strict rules and punishments that kept citizens under control and unable to over through or betray him
Legalism Also gave all the power to Shi Huangdi, and he put the only other people with political power (the futal lords) to death.

Question 16

From whom did the Romans borrow many of their ideas about literacy, religion, and architecture?

Answer 16

Ancient Greece

Question 17

Which Religions, ideas, and technologies were spread through the silk road?

Answer 17

Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, gun powder, magnetic cmpass, horses…

Question 18

What is Hellenistic culture?

Answer 18

A mix of Indian, Persian, Egyptian, and Roman culture

Question 19

How did Shi Haungdi expand trade in China?

Answer 19

standardization/ unification of currency, weights, road systems, language and the bulding of canals created much easier communication and made trade much faster and efficient.

Question 20

How did Hellenistic culture spread?

Answer 20

By alexander the Greats conquest

Question 21

Explain the social Hierarchy of the Roman empire.

Answer 21

from highest to lowest status
Patricians: Wealthy landowners..welcomed in politics
Pelibians: Lower class (majority of the citizens). could earn the right to participate in office
freedmen: formar slave that gained freedome, not considered a citizen, their Children however were, (farmers, trandesmen, even worked in Roman gov)
Slaves: people whos homes were conqured by Rome, considered property, no rights, performed hard labor jobs

Women: had very few rights that varied as you moved up the class hiearchy, but still considered citizens

Question 22

compare and contrast Athenes and Sparta

Answer 22

Athens Sparta
-women had little rights /// -women had freedome/were
-arts were valued in socioty /// able to inherit property
-economy was based on trade /// - did not trade
-education foccouses on ////// -eduaction focoussed on
reading and writting… ////// military/being tough + strong
-allowed to travel //////// -not allowed to travel
-democracy ///////////////// -oligarchy

similarities: food shortages, slaves used mostly for Ag., located in anciient Greece, very little farming

Question 23

What Lead to the Gupta Empires Golden Age?

Answer 23

Stong military alliances and Agressive expansion policy

Question 24

What are 3 inovatios/accomplisments of the Gupta Empire and what was the impact they created?

Answer 24

iorn tools: very little rust/ improved military
mass preoduction of coins: made taxing easier which gave the Emprire more wealth +power
Anvances in Math: created trigonometry, negatives, decmails which are still used to this day.

Question 25

How did Christianity impact the lives of Christians living in the Roman empire?

Answer 25

Christians were treated horribly. They were prosicuted and often died because of their diffrent beliefes.
Howeve much later it became the official religion of Rome.

Question 26

Why is Hinduism considered a monotheistic belief system?

Answer 26

becuase all the gods are considered to be difrent forms of ONE god

Question 27

Why is Hinduism considered a polytheistic belief system?

Answer 27

because Hinduism has over 33,000 gods

Question 28

Who was Ashoka ?

Answer 28

He was the emperor of the Maurya Empire in India who spread Buddhism to China and built his rock and pillar edicts telling people how to live their lives.

Question 29

What role did Ashoka have in developing Buddhism outside of India?

Answer 29

He sent monks throughout trade routes opened through southern India to China

Question 30

what was Hinduism’s moral/ethnic code of conduct?

Answer 30

The Vedas

Question 31

what was Hindusims impat on societies who practiced it?

Answer 31

No social mobility?

Question 32

Where was Hinduism’s origin

Answer 32

india indus river valley

Question 33

founder/major figure of hinduism?

Answer 33

no single figure

Question 34

sacred text of hinduism

Answer 34

Vedas

Question 35

beliefes and practices of hinduism

Answer 35

-karma
dharma
reincarnation
brahaman
caste system

Question 36

when was the golden age of the Gupta Empire

Answer 36

320-550 CE