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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who are the Medes? | migrated from central asia to persia where they lived with babylonian and assyrian empires. |
| Who are the Seleucids? | Persian Empire founded by seleucus after the death of Alexander the Great. |
| Who are the Achaemeid Empire? | First great Persiam Empire, which began under Cyrus and reached its peak under Darius. |
| Who are the Sasanids? | Later powerful Persian dynasty that would reachits peak under shaperi and later fall to Arabic expansion |
| What did most prisoners of war become? | Slaves |
| Who did Han Wudi send on a mission to lands west of China? | Zhang Qian |
| What empire maintained order in china and pacified much of centeral Asia? | Han Empire |
| What religon faced intermitted persecution from Roman officials? | Christianity |
| What were the most destructive dieses the Han and Roman Empires suffered through? | Small pox, measles, and epediemics of bubonic plague |
| Who divided the empire by two administrative districts? | Dioceltian |