Wood 3 Vocab

Question 0

Controlled Greece from 1600-1200 BCE

Answer 0

Mycenaeans

Question 1

Controlled Greece until 1600 BCE

Answer 1

Minoans

Question 2

When did Athens become a democracy? (Although not really, because only free males could vote)

Answer 2

In 510 BCE

Question 3

Put them in order: Socrates, Aristotle, Plato

Answer 3

Socrates taught Plato, who taught Aristotle

Question 4

Cyrus the Great

Answer 4

The first king of Persia. Either he or his son Darius I liberated the Jews from Babylonians exile. He set up a hegemonic political system with governors called “satraps”

Question 5

What three art forms did the Greeks invent?

Answer 5

Drama, lyric poetry, classical architecture

Question 6

Why was it easy for the Macedonians to conquer Greece in the 300s BCE?

Answer 6

Because they had weakened themselves by fighting each other in the peloponnesian war(431-404BCE)

Question 7

Alexander the Great

Answer 7

Took power in 336BCE, died a few years later after taking both Persia and Egypt. After his death his empire was divided to his generals Antigonus(greece+Macedonia), Ptolemy(egypt), Selecus(Persia)

Question 8

Who ruled Italy before the Romans?

Answer 8

The Etruscans, who ruled from 800-509BCE

Question 9

When did Rome gain independence as a republic?

Answer 9

509BCE

Question 10

Rome as a republic…

Answer 10

Senate of patricians, Plebians represented by General assembly(until they revolted and asked for representation, at which point they were given tribunes) and two consuls ruled

Question 11

Rome under Augustus…(he came to power in 31BCE)

Answer 11

Called himself princeps(first citizen), reformed army and navy. Used “equites” to help him rule( hegemonic government). Made the “law of twelve tables”.

Question 12

Punic wars

Answer 12

A series of wars between Rome and Carthage(a former Phoenician colony) between 264 and 146BCE

Question 13

What’s a roman epic poem?

Answer 13

The Aeneid, written by Virgil in 19 BCE

Question 14

Why did Rome fall?

Answer 14

A series of weak emperors, and a lot of pressure from Germanic tribes. The last emperor was deposed in 476CE

Question 15

The Qin Dynasty

Answer 15

221-207BCE, liked legalism, well organized w good weapons, Shi Huangdi(First Emperor) standardized law and currency.

Question 16

The Han Dynesty

Answer 16

206BCE-220CE, Confucian, “mandate of heaven”, had monopoly on silk trade, scholar/bureaucrats(“Shi” or “Mandarin”) were high class, acupuncture was first mentioned in their records, calligraphy was an art form

Question 17

Aryans

Answer 17

The natives of India, who migrated there in 1000 BCE from Indus River Valley civilizations

Question 18

Brahmins

Answer 18

Priests and scholars, the top of the Indian caste system

Question 19

Warriors and government officials, the second level of the Indian caste thing

Answer 19

Kshatriyas

Question 20

Landowners, merchants, artisans; the third level of the Indian caste thing

Answer 20

Vaishya

Question 21

Shudra

Answer 21

Peasants, laborers; the fourth and lowest level of the Indian caste thing

Question 22

Jati

Answer 22

The sub-groups that each Indian caste got divided into between 600BCE and 600CE

Question 23

The Vedic Age

Answer 23

In India from 1500-500 BCE, after the Vedas(Aryan religious texts)

Question 24

Upanishads

Answer 24

An Indian body of religious works that spoke about how the individual spirit (atman) could eventually join the Universal Spirit (Brahman)

Question 25

When did the Mauryan empire

Answer 25

In the 6th century

Question 26

When did the Mauryan empire collapse?

Answer 26

184 BCE

Question 27

Which empire came after the Mauryan empire?

Answer 27

The Gupta empire

Question 28

Persians vs. Greeks

Answer 28

Persians ruled in Anatolia, but the Greeks were sympathetic w the anatolians. Athens aided a rebellion there, so Darius I sent troops. He was defeated by the Greeks at the battle of Marathon. Darius I’s son, Xerxes, tried to kill the Greeks several times and failed.

Question 29

Color in Sanskirt, the word first used by Portuguese sailors to describe the Indian caste system

Answer 29

Varna