Ch. 7

Question 1

Who founded the Mauryan Empire and who was its greatest ruler

Answer 1

Chandragupta Majrya and then Ashoka Maurya

Question 2

Ashoka Maurya converted to what religion because of his disgust with is bloody military victories

Answer 2

Buddhism

Question 3

What is Ashoka Maurya most known for. This edicts reminded the Muryans to life genius lives

Answer 3

Rock and Pillar Edicts

Question 4

What Indian Empire took place from 321 to approximately 180 BCE

Answer 4

Mauryan Empire

Question 5

What Indian dynasty took place in 320 to 550 CE

Answer 5

Gupta

Question 6

What was different between the Mauryan Dynasty and the Gupta Dynasty in India

Answer 6

The Gupta empire was more decentralized and smaller but is known as the golden age because of the peace and developments of the arts and sciences

Question 7

What developments did Gupta mathematicians make

Answer 7

Developed concepts of pi and zero, they devised a decimal system that used the numbers 1 through 9. Hinduism became the major religion again which meant the society structure was very rigid.

Question 8

Wo took down the Gupta Dynasty

Answer 8

Which Huns

Question 9

What Dynasty came after the Zhou dynasty during 221 to around 209 B.C.E.

Answer 9

Qin Dynasty

Question 10

Who was the first emperor of the Qin dynasty

Answer 10

Qin Shi Huang

Question 11

What dynasty in China began the Great Wall

Answer 11

Qin Dynasty

Question 12

What did the ruler of the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang, do

Answer 12

Re centralized feudal kingdoms

Question 13

What was the major belief system in Qin China

Answer 13

Legalism

Question 14

What was the effect of the Civil Service Examinations being introduced in Han China

Answer 14

The consequence was a government bureaucracy that was highly skilled and that contributed to stability in the system of government for centuries

Question 15

In Han China, what were the civil service examinations based on

Answer 15

The teachings of Confucius

Question 16

From approximately 2000 BCE to around 500 CE what two Mediterranean civilizations dominated the region

Answer 16

Rome and Greece

Question 17

Civilization expanded by conquering the early ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia, the Babylonians, the Lydians, the Phoenicians, and the Egyptians

Answer 17

The Persian Empire

Question 18

What did the Persians do to control the provinces, or Satrapies, in their vast empire

Answer 18

They assigned a governor, or Satrap

Question 19

What was the longest source or transportation and communication in the Persian Empire

Answer 19

Great Royal Road

Question 20

Why are the Lydians important

Answer 20

They came up with the concept of using coined money to conduct trade rather than using the barter system

Question 21

Why are the Phoenicians important

Answer 21

First, the established powerful naval city states all along the Mediterranean and second, they developed a simple alphabet that used only 22 letters as opposed to the much more complex cuneiform system

Question 22

Why are the Hebrews important

Answer 22

Because of their monotheistic beliefs in Judaism

Question 23

What were the two main city states in Ancient Greece

Answer 23

Athenians Sparta

Question 24

What were the three main groups each polis was consisted of in Ancient Greece

Answer 24

Citizens, free people with no political rights, noncitizens

Question 25

Because of their open debates and civic decisions what is Athens

Answer 25

The first democracy

Question 26

Athenians who were aristocrats who worked to create the democracy in Athens and to ensure fair, equal, and open participation

Answer 26

Draco and Solon

Question 27

What enabled Greeks to develop their democracy

Answer 27

Slavery because Greek citizens found themselves with free time to meet and vote and to create great works of art and philosophy

Question 28

What followed the Persian Wars, such weere wars fought between the Greeks and Persians

Answer 28

Greek entered the Golden Age of Pericles

Question 29

Established by Pericles in Athens. An alliance against aggression aggression from its common enemies

Answer 29

Delian League

Question 30

The famous ancient Greeks believed that truth could be discerned through rational thought an deliberate and careful observation and that virtue and the quest for goodness would lead to internal peace and happiness

Answer 30

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

Question 31

Who were the Greeks who are known for mat and science

Answer 31

Archimedes, Hippocrates, Euclid, and Pythagoras

Question 32

What two works were written by Homer

Answer 32

Iliad and a odyssey

Question 33

What two civilizations was the Peloponnesian War in and who won

Answer 33

Between Athens and Sparta in Greece. Sparta won but didn't destroy Athens out of respect for their role in the Persian War

Question 34

Conquered Athena and a parts of Greece, but led by Philip III, they preserved the Greek culture

Answer 34

Macedonians

Question 35

The culture, ideals, and pattern of life of Classical Greece

Answer 35

Hellenism

Question 36

Greatest Macedonian leader who was taught by Aristotle and expanded the Macedonian empire across Persia and more

Answer 36

Alexander the Great

Question 37

What here the land owning noblemen called in Rome

Answer 37

Patricians

Question 38

What were all other free men called in Rome

Answer 38

Plebeians

Question 39

Hw was the roman government set up

Answer 39

A representative republic. The main governing body was made up if two distinct groups: the senate and the assembly and two consuls who were elected by the assembly

Question 40

The codified laws in Rome where the concept of innocent until EpiPen guilt originated

Answer 40

Twelve Tables of Rome

Question 41

Who made up the first triumvirate of Rome

Answer 41

Pompey, Crassus, and Julius Caesar

Question 42

Who made up the second triumvirate of Rome

Answer 42

Marc Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus

Question 43

What were famous roman works

Answer 43

Ovids Metamorphoses and Viegils Aeneid

Question 44

What did the Edict of Milan do, which was issued by emperor Constantine

Answer 44

Stopped Christian persecution in Rome

Question 45

What was unique about the Mayans

Answer 45

They used war to get slaves, not riches. They also made the Mayan calendar based in a number system that included zero

Question 46

What empires took place in the Classical Period (200-600 CE)

Answer 46

Han China, the Gupta Empire in India, the western part of the Roma empire in the Mediterranean, the Greeks, the Maya's

Question 47

What happened after the Han Dynasty in China fell

Answer 47

Wang Mang came into power and began the Xin Dynasty which was horrible and later collapsed. The Han dynasty was resorted by collapsed again in 220 CE, dividing China into separate kingdoms

Question 48

Wow restored western Rome after it fell for the first time

Answer 48

Diocletian but them after he retired civil wars broke out, Constantine then got sole control over the entire emperor but after his death, it was divided again.

Question 49

Who practiced polytheism

Answer 49

Ancient Mesopotamian and Mediterranean Empires

Question 50

Who practiced Confucianism

Answer 50

Developed for the Chinese culture and was practiced throughout China from around 499 BCE onward

Question 51

Not an actual religion, it is a political and social philosophy. Focused on five fundamental relationships: ruler and subject, parent and child, husband and wife, older brother and younger brother, and friend and friend

Answer 51

Confucianism

Question 52

Chinese practiced it around 500 BCE onward. Founded by Lao-Tzu and this belief system is based in an elusive concept regarding an eternal principal governing all the working of the world.

Answer 52

Dao

Question 53

What is the difference between Confucianism and Daoism

Answer 53

Confucianism deals with an orderly society. Daoism focuses on helping people live in harmony with nature

Question 54

Practiced in China, specifically during the Qin Dynasty.

Answer 54

Legalism

Question 55

What is the difference between Confucianism and legalism

Answer 55

Confucianism relies in the fundamental goodness of human beings, whereas legalism presupposes that people are fundamentally evil

Question 56

Practiced by the various cultures of the Indian subcontinent. It began with the Aryan invaders in India. Has the Vedas and the Upanishads and has a harsh caste system

Answer 56

Hinduism

Question 57

What do Buddhists follow

Answer 57

The Four Noble Truth and the Eightfold Path

Question 58

What two movements did Buddhism split up into

Answer 58

Theravada, Hinayana, and Mahayana

Question 59

After Mohammad, founder of Islam, died, who became in charge

Answer 59

Abu Bakr

Question 60

What kind of government led Islam

Answer 60

A theocracy which is a government ruled by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regard as being divinely guided

Question 61

Who ruled the theocracy in Islam

Answer 61

The caliph, or caliphate

Question 62

The dynasty that would enlarge the Islamic empire and intensify the conduct with the Byzantine and Persian empires for almost a century.

Answer 62

Umayyad dynasty

Question 63

What were the two camps the Muslims slip up into and why did they break up

Answer 63

Shia and the Sunni. They disagreed of over the right successor of the Umayyad dynasty should be.

Question 64

This Muslim camp believed that Mohammad's son in law, Ali, was the rightful heir to the empire

Answer 64

Shia

Question 65

This Muslim camp believes that the leaders of the empire should be drawn from a broad base of the people

Answer 65

Sunnis

Question 66

What dynasty replaced the Umayyad dynasty

Answer 66

The Abbasid dynasty (750-1258 CE)

Question 67

What are the two first empires in India

Answer 67

Mauryan Empire and then the Gupta Empire