Exam Review: 600 BCE to 600CE Flashcards
Gupta Empire
expanded trade, candra gupta, attacked by huns
Qin
Qin Shuangdi, legalism, single monetary system, began great wall, terracotta army, super harsh yet effective laws
Han
civil service exams to serve in gvt, confucianism, peasants forced into military, textile manufacturing, steel rudder
Greece
developed independent city states
acropolis
cities built on hills with fortifications
hoplite
(greece) soldier for war, kind of like minute men or drafted ppl
Hellenes
an ancient greek person, opposite of barbarian
tyrant
(greek) ruler who seized power unconstitutionally or inherited it
Herodotus
(greek) greek historian “father of history”
greek city states
athens (democratic), sparta (military)
Battle of Marathon and Battle of Thermopylae
greek battles against persia. greece won marathon, lost thermo
delian league
city states joined together to defeat persia, Pericles took all the money when they won, sparta mad, so pelopanesian war w/ athens/sparta
sophists
Socrates questioned everything, student plato wrote it all down, plato’s student Aristotle taught Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great
from Macedonia, conquered eurasia, brought hellenistic age where greek culture is spread
Rome
- Latium,
- Etruscans,
- Republic,
- patricians(nobles), plebians(commoner),
- senate,
- allowed conquered areas to self govern but had to pay taxes/ not rebel,
- Punic wars (against carthage),
- Hannibal = war hero of PW,
- Cesar Agustus = first emperor of rome/age of agustus,
- Pax Romana=roman peace,
- had roman baths,
- christianity,
- silk road,
- bread&circuses keep poor ppl happy,
- Latifundia=plantations
- Constantine divided empire
- edict of milan allows ppl to worship christ
- byzantine capital
- fell b/c of lead in water/pipes, invasion, plague, divided empire, too much to rule.
