Rome
China
India
South East Asia
Spread of Ideas
100
Allowed for safer trade along roads and seas
What is the pax romana?
100
The dynasty that was supposed to last for "ten thousand generations"
What was the Qin?
100
The early Indian religious texts.
What were the Vedas?
100
Clearing land for farming by cutting and burning vegetation.
What is swidden agriculture?
100
The person credited by Chinese with the origin of Western trade
Who was General Zhang?
200
The elite class in Rome
Who were the patricians?
200
The place where the Qin state originated
Where was the Wei Valley?
200
The person that practiced strict nonviolence and gained a large following.
Who was Mahavira?
200
A society centered in Southern Vietnam
What was Funan?
200
Bilingual and bicultural families
What were families established by traders?
300
Invisible forces including Vesta and Janus.
What is numina?
300
The person who drove the nomads northwest of China's frontier to form a confederacy.
Who was Shi Huangdi?
300
large earthen mounds created over Buddha's grave
What are stupas?
300
The people who migrated from Southeast Asia across the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Who were the Malay people?
300
Three religions spread by trade without dependency of a single ethnic group
What are Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam?
400
The emperor that granted Roman citizenship to all free, adult, male inhabitants of the Roman Empire.
Who was Caracalla?
400
The traditional Chinese belief that lead to the need to produce a son.
What was an ancestor cult?
400
What the Vedic religion evolved into.
What is Hinduism?
400
A place at the western end of the Indian ocean trading system with lots of influence over nearby regions, even as far as Yemen.
What is Ethiopia?
500
A town council and two elites elected as officials that ran regional affairs.
What is a municipal aristocracy?
500
The class that could become very wealthy, but was viewed with suspicion.
What was the merchant class?
500
The dynasty in the Deccan Plateau from the second to third century CE.
What was the Satavahana dynasty?
500
The change of international trade routes
What is Funan's decline?
500
A valuable object with it's origins in the Lydian kingdom from the first millennium BCE
What is a coin?
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