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river to empire

transition from river valleys to empires: persia, india, and China

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complex societies with advanced technologies, cities workers, writing, and institutions river valley civilizations
advanced societies with well-organized centralized governments that conquered and ruled a variety of formaly independent people empires
what two things lead to frequent invasions and conquests in mesopotamia fertile soil and lack of natural boundaries
one of the most important ancient empires in present day iran persians
who were the two powerful kings of the persians cyrus and darius
who did the persians conquer with their powerful army mesopotamia, egypt, and india
what is the religion of the persians zoroastastrianism
religion that viewed life as a struggle between good and evi zoroastastrianism
Persians believed in what and what as consequences for the way they lived their life heaven and hell
Zoroastrianism influenced the views of the afterlife for what 3 other religions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
in what way was persian king cyrus tolerant about to help him conquer and collect for the empire allowed people to keep languages and religions rather than destroying or looting conquered cities; he had respect for th locals
how did king Darius conquer people divided empire into 20 Providences each ruled by a local governor
local governor for king Darius who was his eyes and ears, collected tax, and inform king of uprisings satrap
Persians built a network of what so they could collect tax, improve communications and trade throughout the empire networks of roads
what did the Persians use to promote trade metal coins that had standardized values
became king of India, created vast army, conquered new lands, and this person controlled most of Indian subcontinent Chandragupta's
what was chandragupta's tactic to controlling his empire divided empire into provinces ruled by local prince similar to persians
what was the name of chandragupta's empire Mauryan empire
this king of Mauryan empire took over from CG and expanded empire to its greatest king asoka
what did king asoka convert to that spread as a result of his influence buddhism
king asoka developed policies of ___________ and ____________ for his empire as a result to swithcing to buddhism tolerance and non-violence
who took over king asoka's death and what did the empire change to chandra gupta; gupta empire
what did india experience under the gupta empire that it became a classical empire GOLDEN AGE
who was the first to discoer the earth was round indian astronomers
what did mathematicians invent in India numerals, zero, and decimal system
what did Indian merchants sell to Mediterranean world spices and silk
what cycle was the chinese government based on dynastic cycle
how did the dynastic cycle work one riling family or dynasty gains the mandate of heaven then rules until the dynasty grows weak and is overthrown
nmae the four dynasties that resulted fro the dynastic cycle shang, zhou, qin, and han
during which dynasty did china become a classical civlization marked by its advanced gov't, trade, and technology han dynasty
where did han kings expand into with their powerfully built asrmies into asia to form china's first government
government workers who collected tax for han dysnasty bureaucracts
silk and paper made what increase in china literacy
the desire for luxury goods led to what the silk road which connected china with indian, persian, and medditeranian socities
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