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42 Cards in this Set
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center of Persian communication network
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Royal Road |
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took case to Rome- uses the infrastructure of Rome by means of spread of Christianity
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Paul of Tarsus
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adopting Chinese culture
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Sinicization |
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rebel who rebels against the Romans; she challenges the Roman empire from Great Britain |
Boudica |
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She is like Boudica and led rebellions and challenged Roman empire
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Cleopatra |
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Byzantine empire based around what city?
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Constantinople |
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"he who enters doesn’t come back"
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Taklamakan Desert |
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who spread Buddhism to China? |
merchants |
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Who led a rebellion of slaves in the Roman empire? |
Spartacus |
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What is the fundamental Doctrine of Buddhism? |
Four Noble Truth |
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What are the Four Noble Truths? |
1) life is pain 2) pain is caused by desire 3) elimination of desire will bring an end to pain 4) living a life based on the Noble Eightfold Path will eliminate desire |
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The final truth of the Buddhist Four Noble Truths that called for leading a life of balance and constant contemplation |
The Noble Eightfold Path |
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Who are the Hellenistic philosophers who encouraged their followers to lead active, virtuous lives and to aid others? |
Stoics |
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Anointed one |
Christ |
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Daoist concept of a disengagement from the affairs of the world |
Wuwei |
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large plantation; huge state-run and slave-worked farms in ancient Rome |
Latifundia |
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What becomes more popular because of the rise of Daoism? |
Buddhism |
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What was the greatest social contribution of the Jainists? |
they challenged |
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first emperor of China— did not support traditional learning— legalists |
Qin Shihuangdi |
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What did the Edict of Milan do? |
allowed Christians to practice their faith openly in the Roman Empire |
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Which empire did Alexander the Great conquer? |
Seleucid empire |
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Who established the Gupta dynasty? |
Chandra Gupta |
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This disciple of Confucius held a naively optimistic view of human nature |
Mencius |
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This disciple of Confucius believed that human beings selfishly pursued their own interests, no matter what effects their actions had on others. |
Xunzi |
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underground canals; water not evaporating |
quanat |
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who swept the ground in front of them? they didn't wanna hurt the bugs? |
Jains |
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what faith has the Maxim: good words, good thoughts, good deeds? |
Zoroastrianism |
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What is the most important port? |
Athens |
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successive trade largely developed on what? |
monsoon winds |
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He favored liberal policies and social reform; spent enormous sums of money sponsoring public spectacles (gladiators); confiscated property from conservatives and distributed to veterans of his army |
Julius Caesar |
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He fashioned an imperial government; government was a monarchy disguised as a republic; centralized political and military power; reorganized military system- owing allegiance to the emperor |
Augustus Caesar |
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A prominent aristocrat and the most important historian of the early Roman empire; deplored the loss of political courage among Roman leaders after the establishment of the imperial regime |
Cornelius Tacitus |
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He was the official astrologer and chinese historian at the court of the Han dynasty in Chang'an; castrated because he had publicly expressed opinions that contradicted the ruler's judgment |
Sima Qian |
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Who are Augustus' famous rivals? |
Anthony and Cleopatra |
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He defeated several Roman armies and settled the prisoners in Iran- where Sasanids devoted their famous engineering skills to the construction of roads and dams. |
Shapur I |
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What is the order of the Persian empire? |
1) Achaemenids 2) Seleucids 3) Parthians 4) Sasanids |
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the smallest of the Hellenistic empires |
The Antigonid Empire |
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the wealthiest of the Hellenistic Empires (in Egypt) |
The Ptolemaic Empire |
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the largest of the Hellenistic empires; Greek and Macedonian colonists flocked to theses cities, where they joined the ranks of imperial bureaucrats and administrators |
The Seleucid Empire |
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He limited the amount of land that a family could hold and ordered officials to break up large estates, redistribute them and provide landless individuals with property to cultivate |
Wang Mang |
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Jain term for the principle of nonviolence to other living things or their souls |
ahimsa |
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system of provincial government in the Persian Empire, in which administration is divided into provinces |
satrapies |