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Chapter 4
Eurasian Empires
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What ancient empire is the United States compared to? | The Roman Empire |
| Why was it compared to the Roman Empire? | The US multicultural society, technological achievements, economilcally draining and overstretched armed forces, and its concern about foriegners penetrating its borders. |
| What is an empire? | Simply states, political systems that excercise coercive power. |
| What does an emperor do? | conquer, rule, and extrat resources from other states and people. |
| What are the 3 competeing city-states? | Mesoptamia, Greece, and the Maya |
| What 2 second wave civilizations interacted with each other? | The Persians and the Greeks. |
| The Persian Empire | started in 500 BCE the largest and most impressive, whose homeland lay on the Iranian plateau just north of the Persian Gulf. |
| Who were the famous monarchs of the Persian Empire? | Cyrus and Darius |
| What was the monarch of the Persian Empire like? | an elaborate cult of kingship in which the monarch could only be approached through an elaborate ritual. |
| What are satraps? | Persian governors |
| Who were the "eyes and ears of the King"? | The kings spies. |
| How did Cyrus win the gratitude of the Jews? | He allowed those exhile in Babylon to return to their homeland and rebuild their temples in Jerusalem. |
| How did Persian provide a model for the Islamic World? | Because the Persian bureaucracy and court life repleted with administrators, tax collectors, record keepers and translaters. |
| What did the Persian's infrastructure include? | a system of coinage, predictable taxes, and a newly dug canal linking the Nile with the Red Sea. |
| What was the Royal Road? | 1700 mile long road that started in China and ended in Egypt. It faciliated communications and commerce across the empire. |
| What was Greece like? | small competing city states that allowed varying degrees of popular participation in political life. |
| How long did Greece last until it turned into an empire? | 400 years. |
| What are characteristics of Greece? | a small pennisula deeply divided by steep mountains and valleys and a population of 2-3 million. |
| What are the characteristics of the city states? | modest in size, fiercely independent and in frequent conflict with its neighbors. |
| What did they have in common? | speaking the same language, and worshipping the same god. |
| Why did the Greeks settle around the Mediterranean? | Because Greek traders were in search of iron and impoverished Greek farmers in search of land. |
| What was the idea of citizenship like to some of the Greek citystates? | free people running the affairs of the state and equality for all citizens before the law. |
| What are hoplites? | infantry men (soliders) |
| What are tyrants? | strong but benevolent rulers |
| Who are helots? | people that were conquered by Sparta who lived in slavelike conditions. |
| What are the Council of Elders? | 28 men over the age of 60 that were wealthy and influenced the society. They served for life and provided political leadership for Sparta. |
| What did Solon try to do for Athens? | He tried to push Athenian politics in to a more democratic direction. |
| What right did all citizens in Athens recieve in 450 BCE? | the right to hold public office. |
| How was Athenian democracy different from modern democracy? | It was direct/ had no reps, much more limited- women, slaves, and foreigners were excluded from the democracy. |
| What was the main cause of the Greco-Persian war? | Their respective patterns of expansion. |
| Who won the Greco-Persian war and how did they do it? | The Greeks won by holding off Persia's punishing military expeditions. |
| How did the "East/West divide" happen? | Perisa represented Asia = despotism (absolute power) and Greece represented Europe=freedom. |
| How did the greeks winning the war change Athenian democracy? | The poorer men that went into battle were positioned as full citizens. |
| What is the Peloponnesian War? | A civil war (431-404 BCE) were Athenian efforts to soldify Athen's dominant position among the allies which led to resentment. |
| Who won the Peloponnesian War? | Athens were defeated, Sparta won. |
| What did Alexander the Great do? | Led a 10 year expedition in his 20s of a Greek empire that was from Egypt and Anatolia in the west and Afghanistan and India in the east. |
| Who was Alexander the Great to the Egyptians? | A liberator from Persian domination, a pharoah, and was declared by Egyptian priests as the "son of the gods". |
| What happened to Alexander's empire after he died in 323 BCE? | It was divided into 3 kingdoms, which were ruled by Macedonian generals. |
| what is the Hellenistic Era (323-30 BCE)? | The widespread dissemination of Greek culture. |
| How were cities such as Alexandria different than the city states of Greece? | Their cultural diversity and the absence of the independence that was valued by Athens and Sparta. |
| How did Greek cultural interaction occur? | Egypt and Mesoptamia built temples patrionizing local gods. In India Greeks were part of the Kshatriya(warrior) caste. People were able to become a Greek by getting a Greek education, speaking the language, dressing like them and having a Greek name. |
| What did the roman and Chinese empires have in common? | Flourished around the same time, occupied similar amount of area, and had smaller populations. |
| How did Rome begin? | Rome began as a small and impoverished city stateon the western side in the 8th century BCE. |
| What happened in Rome around 509 BCE? | Roman aristocrats got rid of the monarch and established a republic. |
| What is a patrician? | a wealthy republican |
| What is a plebian? | the poorer classes |
| What contributed to the growth of the Roman empire? | control over latin neighbors, victory in the Punic Wars, expansion in the Mediterranean and it expanded in southern and western Europe. |
| What built the Roman Empire? | the well trained, well fed, and well rewarded army. |
| What did Augustus try to keep as Rome went from a republic to an empire? | the Senate, consuls, and public assemblies |
| How did the Qin Shihuangdi succeed? | developed a bureaucracy, had equipped army w/ iron weapons, rapid rising of agricultural output and a growing population. |
| What is Legalism? | clear rules and harsh punishments as a means of enforcing the authority of the state. |
| What happened to scholars that opposed Shihuangdi's policies? | They were executed and their books were burned. |
| What are characteristics of the Great Wall of China? | built by hundreds of thousands of laborers which was designed to keep out barbarians and as a monument to the emperor's final resting place. |
| Why didnt the Qin Shihuangdi last long? | the speed and brutality |
| What are characterisitics of the Han dynasty? | retained features of the Shihuangdi, it moderated the harshness of his policies,and adopted Confucianism |
| What did the Roman and Chinese Empires have in common? | defined themselves in universal terms, invested in public works(roads, bridges, aqueducts, canals, and protective walls) and both had supernatural sanctions. |
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