Greece, Persia, & Rome
This Greek term refers to the ideal model for a Greek city.
What is the Polis?
This Roman general conquered Gaul, was declared dictator for life, and assassinated by a senatorial conspiracy in 44 BC.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This dynasty (202 BCE - 220 CE) marked the first Golden Age of Chinese history followed the collapse of the Xia Dynasty.
What is the Han Dynasty?
This figure in early Islamic thought was believed to be the successor to Muhammad and to hold political and religious power.
Who is the caliph?
This luxury good from China fueled east-west exchange and greatly angered conservative Romans.
What is Silk?
This Greek city resolved to resist the Persian invasion of Xerxes at the Battle of Thermopylae?
What is Sparta?
This queen of Egypt allied herself to Marcus Antonius against Octavian Caesar at the close of the Roman Civil War.
Who was Cleopatra VII?
This ideology was at the heart of the imperial Civil Service Exam in Han and Tang China.
What is Confucianism?
This concept refers to the principle within Islamic society that special toleration must be given to Jews and Christians.
What is Peoples of the Book?
This people resulted from a merger of Norse and Slavic cultural/religious traditions. Ibn Fadlan encountered them during his travels along the Volga River.
Who are the Rus'?
This faction within Roman politics advocated for the rights of the Roman masses against the privileges of the elite Patrician families, the Optimates?
Who are the populares?
This monumental race track was the center of the massively popular chariot races in Rome.
What is the circus maximus?
These men of the Han & Tang palace were trained in confucian thought and served as chief administrators.
Who were the Shi officials?
This city was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate.
What is Baghdad?
This military predator culture warred against Tang China and came to safeguard trade along the Silk Road.
Who are the Turks?
This concept describes the absolute authority of the father within the Roman familia.
What is the pater familias?
This concept refers to the hierarchy of public offices in the Roman Republic. The highest among them was that of consul.
What is the cursus honorum?
This group of military predators lived to the north of China during the Xia and Han periods. They are thought to share a common origin w/ the Hunnic confederation.
Who are the Xiongnu?
This branch of Islam insists that the caliph must be drawn from the blood-relations of Muhammad.
What is Shia' Islam?
These small scale religious communities in the Roman Empire, with origins in the east, promised secretive knowledge through private ceremonies.
What are mystery cults?
This deity of Persian Zoroastrian belief was the lord of wisdom and creator of all goodness in the universe.
Who is Ahura Mazda?
This Roman concept refers to the spiritual advisor/guardian/companion that attaches itself to people, places, and things.
What is the genius?
This powerful Tang emperor first took Wu Zhao into the imperial palace as a concubine, thus beginning her political career.
Who is Taizhong?
This term refers to the collected institutions of learning in Baghdad that preserved the wisdom of the ancient Mediterranean?
What is the Ulama?
This late Vedic Sanskrit group of texts were important for the formation of mature Hinduism in India. They mark the transition from archaic ritualism to more sophisticated Axial Age concepts w/in the religion.
What are the Upanishads?