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Chapter 4 Ethan
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What empire was similar to the present United States? | Ancient Rome. |
| Cyrus? | Persian Emperor who ruled from 557-530 BCE. |
| Darius? | Persian Emperor who ruled from 522-486 BCE. |
| What defines an empire? | Sates that exercise political and coercive power. |
| What were some prominent Eurasian empires of the Classical period? | Persia, Greece under Alexander the Great, Rome, and China during the Qin and Han Dynasties. |
| How far did the Persian Empire strech? | From Egypt to India. |
| When did the Persian Empire begin? | In 500 BCE. |
| Satraps? | Governors placed throughout the Persian Empire. |
| What were some great technological feats of the Persians? | A "great road" that stretched for some 1700 miles, and a canal that connected the Nile and the Red Sea. |
| What were some important Persian cities? | Susa and Persepolis. |
| Hellenes? | Another name for the Greeks. |
| Total population of Greece? | 2-3 million. |
| What was a difference between Greece and Persia? | Greece had lots of small and independent city-states. |
| When did the original Olympic Games begin? | 776 BCE. |
| What were some important Greek city-states? | Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and Corinth. |
| When were Greek settlements established around the rim of the Black Sea and the Mediterranean? | Between 750 and 500 BCE. |
| Hoplites? | Greek infantrymen. |
| Tyrants? | Greek strong but benevolent leaders. |
| Helots? | Spartan prisoners of war. |
| Council of Elders? | Spartan council consisting of 28 men over the age of 60. |
| What caused the Greco-Persian War? | Ionian Greek cities revolting against Persia. |
| Who won the Greco-Persian War? | Greece. |
| When did the Persian launch military expeditions against Greece? | Twice in 490 and 480 BCE. |
| Battle of Marathon? | Tremendous Greek victory in the Greco-Persian War, led by the Athenians. |
| What did the Greeks believe they symbolized in the Greco-Persian War? | Freedom and Democracy. |
| What did the Greeks believe the Persians to symbolize in the Greco-Persian War? | Despotism. |
| When did the Golden Age for Greece occur? | Some fifty years after the Greco-Persian Wars. |
| What caused the Peloponnesian War? | Athens trying to take control of all of Greece. |
| Who were the main combatants in the Peloponnesian War? | Sparta and Athens. |
| Who won the Peloponnesian War? | Sparta. |
| Who led the Macedonian takeover of Greece? | Phillip II. |
| Who led the Macedonian Greeks to defeat Persia and take control of most of the Ancient World? | Alexander the Great. |
| How far did Alexander's empire spread? | From Egypt to Anatolia and India. |
| When did Alexander die? | 323 BCE. |
| What happened to Alexander's emire after he died? | It was split up into three kingdoms, each governed by one of his generals. |
| What were the names of the three Alexandrian kingdoms? | The Antigonid, Ptolemaic, and Seleucid empires. |
| How long did the Hellenistic period last? | From 323 BCE to 30 BCE. |
| Patricians? | Wealthy Roman class. |
| Plebeians? | Lower Roman class. |
| Tribune? | Public office that represented the pleneians. |
| How much land did the Roman Empire encompass? | All of the Mediterranean basin, with parts of Europe, Britain, North Africa, and the Middle East. |
| Punic Wars? | Series of conflicts between Rome and Carthage between 264-146 BCE. |
| Who won the Punic Wars? | Rome. |
| When was the reign of Ceasar Augustus? | 27 BCE-14 CE. |
| When was the collapse of the Roman Empire? | 476 CE. |
| Pax Romana? | Era of Roman Peace. |
| What philosophy did Shuhuangdi use for China? | Legalism. |
| When was the collapse of the Han dynasty? | 220 CE. |
| "Warring States" Period? | Era in Chinese history where several states fought for control of China; ended with Shihuangdi and Qin dynasty. |
| When was the collapse of the Qin dynasty? | 206 BCE. |