Exam 2 Flashcards by Abbi Haynie

Fought between Sparta and Athens because of their rivalry

Peloponnesian War

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Athens lost because the Persian empire supported Sparta

Peloponnesian War

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Three wars fought between Rome and Carthage over trade dominance in the Mediterranean

Punic Wars

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Rome won all three wars and destroyed the city of Carthage at the end of the third one

Punic Wars

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Qin, Han, and Sui

Chinese Dynasties

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United China under when Shi Huang (existed as competing kingdom before)

Qin

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harsh measures to enforce certain behaviors

Legalism

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Collapsed because of feuding factions

Qin

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Confucianism became increasingly important with the implementation of civil service exams

Han

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Chinese expansion south (dynasty)

Han

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Beginnings of the silk road (dynasty)

Han

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Unified Northern and Southern dynasties

Sui

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Canal system connected agricultural areas to cities (dynasty)

Sui

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Vedic Religion, Upanishad Texts, Buddhism, Hinduism

Religions in India

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Centuries old
Focused on rituals and religious hierarchies
(Religion)

Vedic Religion

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More individualized
Focused on meditation and understanding the soul (atman)
(Religion)

Upanishad Texts

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Focused on achieving enlightenment,
Taught against discrimination that occurs when people are trapped in a false duality and don’t understand reality
(Religion)

Buddhism

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Spread under emperor Ashoka (Religion)

Buddhism

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Mixture of Buddhism, Vedic, and Upanishad beliefs
Spread along the Indian Ocean Trade Route (Buddhism did as well)

Hinduism

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Central Asia
Mainly shipped luxury goods

Silk Road

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East and west with India at the center
Shipped the most goods and the largest variety of goods

Indian Ocean Trade (Sea Road)

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Northern Africa (Sahel)
Spread Islam westward (Trade Routes)

Sahara Trade (Sand Road)

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Took over neighboring peoples and created a flow of resources towards their centers
Had the most advanced scientific achievements in the world

Islamic Empires

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Production of olives and wine in the Mediterranean funded

expansions that included colonies for growing grain

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Moving up the disease gradient was ______

Difficult

Yangtze river valley not settled until _______

Han Dynasty

Hinduism and Buddhism spread in India as people began to focus on

more spiritual than material aspects of life

Athenian

A major epidemic

Antonine plague

A major epidemic

Plague of 251-266 CE

A major epidemic

Justinian plague

A major epidemic

What increase the appeal of Christianity

The confluence of disease pools

What facilitated the spread of disease

Trade

When were populations able to rebound after the confluence of disease pools

900 CE

The middle east remained _______ ________ by the confluence of disease pools

relatively unharmed

Golden Horde

violent

Left Governments functioning

Mongol ruling

dynastic

Mongol ruling

Religions allowed to continue as long as they prayed for the Mongol Ruler

Mongol ruling

Resettlement of Specialist through empire

Mongol ruling

diplomatic, adapted to the region they controlled (including religion)

Ilkhanate

Stability, but seen as foreigners

Yuan Dynasty

grew in size and prominence because of cooperation with Mongols (city)

Muscovy

Sacked in 1258, 200,000 people killed (city)

Baghdad

killed Mongol emissaries, entire population save two priests were executed in retaliation. (city)

Ryazan

Yuan Dynasty capital, decided by Kublai Khan (city)

Beijing

United Mongol peoples, promoted based (person)

Temujin

ilkhanate Leader, self declared Sultan, became defender of Islam

Ghazan Il-Kah

Finished conquest of China 1279, founded Yuan Dynasty, moved capital to Beijing. (person)

Kubilai Khan

raveled to Mongol Empire and met someone from his hometown.

William of Rubruck

plague, wiped out roughly a third of Europe

Black Death

Human response to the Black Death

Flagellants, Quarantine

Types of the plague

Bubonic, Pneumonic, Septicemic

plague that killed people the fastest

Pneumonic

leprosy (Hansen's and Yaws)

Disease competition

300 ships, sailing around the Indian ocean spreading Chinese influence

Zheng He

Largest shipyard in the work, standardized work system modern day assembly line

Longjen Shipyard

127 meters long, 51 meters wide, 7 floors

treasure boats

Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal

Gunpowder Empires

Byzantine empire area- take constantinople (gunpowder)

Ottoman

unite almost all of the muslim world (gunpowder)

ottoman

Janissary armies (gunpowder)

Ottoman

Peaked under Suleiman the great (gunpowder)

Ottoman

Decline over a long period of time, gone by the end of WWII (gunpowder)

Ottoman

Persia (gunpowder)

Safavid

large armies helped them maintain control (gunpowder)

Safavid

Shah Abbas (religious toleration) (gunpowder)

Safavid

Persian carpets and unique, mini paintings- Fall in 1747 (gunpowder)

Safavid

India- independent northern kingdoms called sultanates (gunpowder)

Mughal

Babur officially started this empire (gunpowder)

Mughal

Akbar - famous for architecture (Taj Mahal) (gunpowder)

mughal

Weaken in 1700s because of overspending and Hindu revolts (gunpowder)

Mughal

Conquistador, arrives 1519 in Mexico to eventually conquer the Aztec Empire

Cortez

Discovers the strait under South America

Magellan

A man buried in Moche in 50 CE, showing a concentration of wealth.

Lord of Sipan

Babur’s grandson, ruled during the most prosperous time, expanded to almost India

Akbar

Dominated Trade in Mediterranean

Venice and Genoa

Home to 200,000 people, 8 sq miles, no writing, sacked in 550 CE, massive architecture, the Sun Pyramid

Teotihuacan

Center of Aztec Empire, center of Mexico City, formed alliances with two other tribes

Tenochtitlan

A Peruvian chieftain that arose after Chavin faded in 200 BCE

Moche

1518 (disease)

smallpox

1530 (disease)

Measles

1546 (disease)

Typhus

1558 (disease)

Influenza

1650 (disease)

Malaria

1648 (disease)

Yellow Fever

1648 (disease)

Yellow Fever

Became the most powerful city state in the 1300’s, Pachakuti began conquering large areas in 1438.

Cuzco

What incas called their state

Great apparatus

agricultural limits, lack of large-bodied animals in large packs, evidence of invasion of Eurasian plants

Biological vulnerability

Amerindian populations pressed hard against their limits set by cultivable land, the amount they produced vs consumed. What happened during a food shortage? How vulnerable did this make them to disease brought from outsiders?

Population decay

Writing becomes more prominent (civ)

Olmec

Bloodletting and the artifacts associate with it (civ)

Olmec

Traditional Mesoamerican ballgame (Civ)

Olmec

Most deadly of the black deaths

Pneumonic

When the Incas/Aztecs conquered a town they moved half the people to somewhere else so they couldn't gang up on them

Matinees

Inca jobs

Soldiers Priests Merchants

Disease that went away as people had wood and better clothing

Hansens

McNeil thought it turned into Syphilis

Yaws

Extreme quarantine country

Italy

City wide quarantine country

Islamic

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