Ancient China
Strict laws and harsh punishments are necessary to maintain order
Legalism
Mathematical achievement of the Gupta Empire
Zero
Greek city-state that focused on military power, ruled by an oligarchy (two kings)
Name of the government office that held power to vote on things in the republic. There were about 300 - 600 of them
Senator
Emphasized that leaders were supposed to lead by moral example and personal virtue
Confucianism
Religion spread along this path from Asia to Europe by monks/missionaries
Silk Road
Greek city-state that focused on democracy, had many influential philosphers
Athens
He was the first Emperor of Rome
Augustus
Harmony with nature and living a simple balanced life or "the way"
Daoism
Life is full of suffering, and the way to end suffering is through the Eightfold Path and enlightenment
Buddhism
War between Athens and Sparta that led to an overall weakened state of Greece
Peloponnesian War
Name of the two classes of people in Rome
Patricians (elite) and Plebeians (ordinary)
Dynasty that developed the silk road
Han Dynasty
He promoted Buddhism, moral governance, and helped spread Indian culture across Asia
Ashoka
The spread of Greek ideas, art, architecture, philosophy, and science across Europe and parts of Asia
Hellenism / Hellenistic Period
What led to the fall of the Roman Republic
Economic inequality and soldiers being more loyal to Generals, like Caesar, than the state
Dynasty that unified China, standardized writing, currency, and built much of the Great Wall
Qin Dynasty
What were the reasons South Asia shifted from traditional Brahmanism to Buddhist and Hinduism?
Hinduism and Buddhism offered more accessible practices, personal devotion, and more answers to suffering than the rigid social hierarchy of Brahmanism
The Greeks fought against this empire in the battles of Marathon and Thermopylae
Persia
What was the status of women in Rome and what rights did they have?
Some property and mobility rights but were not citizens and were under their husbands/fathers