Classical China
The first emperor of China.
Who is Qin Shi Huang?
The founder of the Persian Empire.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
The Qin Emperor did what to try and unify his people after he created his empire.
created a unified writing system and currency
This was the belief that powerful and efficient government is required to restore order.
What is Legalism?
This is Cultural Diffusion.
What is the spread of ideas, religion and technology from one region to the other?
Why are there no PRIMARY SOURCES from the fall of the Qin Dynasty?
Because there are no records that were left from the Qin that were not destroyed and all of the Han writings come from a generation after the fall.
What did the Persians require of the people they conquered?
Taxes
What major technological advancements/ discoveries were created under the Han dynasty? (there are 3)
What is paper, the seismograph and the discovery of blood circulation?
This religion was developed in China during the period of warring states and its people were persecuted by the first emperor of China.
What is Confucianism?
This trade route facilitated cultural diffusion during the Classical Era.
What is the Silk Road?
The Greeks were divided into small areas of land that functioned as their own nations making their own laws, having their own rulers and practicing their own religions. These regions were called ____.
What are city-states?
A system of government created by Athens that is widely practiced today.
What is democracy?
This was the monotheistic religion practiced by the Persians.
What is Zoroastrianism?
These regions were connected by the Silk Road.
Where were Asia to the Mediterranean(Europe also acceptable)?
He lead the peasant revolt against the Qin and became the first Emperor of the Han.
Who is Lui Bang?
This battle was the turning point in the Persian Wars and although the Greeks lost the Battle it gave them time to gather the rest of their forces so that they would win the war.
What is the battle of Thermopylae?
This building project was started by the Qin Emperor on the Northern boarder of his Empire and was meant to keep the Mongolians out.
The Great Wall of China
This religion was started as a philosophy to help the people of China connect back to their roots during the Period of Waring States and focus on relationships and peoples merit.
What is Confucianism
This religion was spread FROM India TO China on this Silk Road and has become the most widely practiced religion in China.
What is Buddhism?
The two major differences of the Qin and Han Dynasties.
The Han were less cruel and encouraged the practice of Confucianism
The Greek (Macedonian) man who conquered the whole of the Persian Empire before he died of Malaria at 33.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This was created by the First Emperor to protect him in the afterlife.
The Terracotta Army
This was the idea that the emperor of China was the son of heaven but could loose his power if he went against the good of the people.
Mandate of Heaven
The first part of the Silk Road was built by the Persians and called what?
The Royal Road