Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Empires
He was the Macedonian king who conquered the Persian Empire and established one of the largest empires in the ancient world before his death at a young age.
Who is B. Alexander the Great?
Answer (Clue): This 200-year period of relative peace, stability, and golden-age expansion across the Mediterranean began under the rule of Emperor Augustus.
What is B the Pax Romana?
Answer (Clue): Originating in India, this belief system spread rapidly along Afro-Eurasian trade networks by teaching that life involves suffering caused by worldly desires.
What is B- Buddhism?
Answer (Clue): To safely travel overland across harsh desert conditions along the Silk Road, traders heavily relied on this specific domesticated pack animal.
What is B the camel?
Answer (Clue): This capital city of the Byzantine Empire was strategically located on the Bosporus Strait, making it a wealthy nexus for Mediterranean and Asian trade.
What is C -Constantinople?
Answer (Clue): This specific term describes the blend of Greek, Persian, Egyptian, and Indian cultures that spread across Afro-Eurasia as a result of Alexander's conquests.
What is C Hellenistic?
Answer (Clue): This was the primary governing and advisory council in the Roman Republic, largely dominated by upper-class patricians.
What is C the Roman Senate?
Answer (Clue): Originating in the Roman province of Judea, this monotheistic religion initially faced persecution but eventually became the official state religion of the Roman Empire.
What is C- Christianity?
Answer (Clue): This prized luxury textile was kept a closely guarded state secret by China for centuries, driving intense commercial demand across Afro-Eurasia.
What is C silk?
Answer (Clue): This decentralized political and military system dominated Western Europe during the Middle Ages, built on mutual obligations between lords and vassals.
What is B feudalism?
Answer (Clue): Located in Egypt, this city founded by Alexander became the ultimate intellectual, cultural, and commercial center of the Hellenistic world, famous for its massive library.
What is D Alexandria?
Answer (Clue): This unique civil engineering infrastructure allowed Rome to move clean water across vast distances into its urban centers to support public sanitation.
What are C aqueducts?
Answer (Clue): This intellectual revival during the Song Dynasty merged traditional ethical philosophies with Buddhist and Daoist spiritual ideas to shape Chinese governance.
What is B -Neoconfucianism?
Answer (Clue): Gold, salt, and Islamic scholarship were heavily exchanged along these specific merchant networks connecting West Africa to North Africa and the Mediterranean.
What are the C trans-Saharan trade routes?
Answer (Clue): In Western European medieval manorialism, these agricultural laborers were legally bound to the land they worked and owed labor to the local lord.
Who are C -serfs?
Which of the following is false:
A) Alexander the Great was Aristotle's student
B) Alexander the Great conquered Persia and Phoenicia
C) Alexander the Great wrote The Republic, a book about the best form of government
D) Alexander the Great spread Greek culture throughout his empire
What is C?
Answer (Clue): Written in 451 BCE, this early codification of civil laws established the principle that all free citizens had a right to equal treatment under Roman law.
What are B the Twelve Tables?
Answer (Clue): Practiced widely across ancient empires, this term describes the worship of or belief in multiple deities, rather than a single god.
What is D -polytheism?
Answer (Clue): In central Asia, silk became so highly desired and standardized in value that it began to be used by merchants as this economic tool.
What is B -currency?
Answer (Clue): Spreading rapidly along trade routes in the mid-14th century, this devastating pandemic caused massive demographic collapse across Afro-Eurasia and severely destabilized the feudal system in Western Europe.
A) The Justinian Plague
B) Smallpox
C) The Black Death (Bubonic Plague)
D) Cholera
What is C) The Black Death (Bubonic Plague)
Answer (Clue): This philosophical school, founded in Athens during the Hellenistic era, taught that individuals should cultivate destructive emotions through self-control and align themselves with natural law.
What is C Stoicism?
Answer (Clue): Faced with severe economic, military, and political crises in 285 CE, this emperor decided to split the Roman Empire into Western and Eastern administrative halves.
Who is D -Diocletian?
Answer (Clue): This Mauryan emperor converted to Buddhism after witnessing massive casualties at the Battle of Kalinga, choosing to spread religious tolerance across India via stone edicts.
Who is C- Ashoka the Great?
Answer (Clue): This highly valued volcanic rock was actively excavated and exported by the merchants of Teotihuacan to gain wealth and fuel urban development.
What is C -obsidian?
Answer (Clue): This major religious development in 1054 CE permanently divided the Christian world into the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
B. What is the Great Schism?