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