Classical Empires
Usually large states created by conquest, ruled by an emperor, and contained multi-ethnic populations.
What are Classical Empires?
Forcing losing city-states pay tribute and using captives for sacrifices.
What is the reason the Mayan civilization fought wars?
The secular belief system that became the official state ideology of the Han and underpinned (strengthened) the empire as it expanded.
What is Confucianism?
The religious texts that emerged in the Indus Valley civilization and legitimized the caste system giving it a divine origin.
What are the Vedas?
An area of land surrounded by water on three sides (peninsula) and a collection of islands (archipelago) in the Mediterranean Sea.
Where did the classical Greek city-states develop?
A population with different languages, religions, and nationalities.
What are ethnically-diverse/ multi ethnic people/empires?
The creation of Darics facilitated trade through the empire.
How did Persia use currency?
The system of choosing leadership based on success on a test rather than by privilege or wealth that was used in the Han Dynasty.
What is a meritocracy?
The initial founder of Buddhism who rejected formal rituals and the caste system.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama (aka the Buddha)?
Rocky and mountainous terrain that was difficult to travel across helped developed dozens of independent city states that shared a broad cultural heritage but had different governments underpinned by different values.
What effect did Greece's physical geography play in its development during the classical period?
Crafted as a pretext to justify conquest, this/these term/s were used to imply (mean) that settled societies are superior to nomadic societies.
What are barbarians or uncivilized people?
vast oceans on either side
What is the reason the Maya were culturally isolated from Afro-Eurasia?
The belief that the leader of China got his legitimacy from the gods and provided stability to the Han as the ruling dynasty.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
The universalizing religion spread throughout East and South East Asia because it rejects the caste system, does not believe in gods and focuses instead on escaping suffering and reaching enlightenment (Nirvana).
What is Buddhism?
Did not use religion to encourage obedience to the civilization’s leaders. Instead emphasized using logic, observation, and questioning received wisdom and became the foundation for Athenian democracy.
(1) had cities, (2) farmed crops (3) had labor specialization, (4) had social hierarchies, (5) produced art, (6) had complex governments, (7) kept records, (8) built infrastructure, and (9) had organized religions.
What are the traits of a civilized society?
What are the characteristics that made Persia an effective empire?
An idea of Confucianism that emphasizes obeying and being submissive one’s superiors (parents) and to respect one’s role in society.
What is filial piety?
The response of religious leaders in South Asia to the growing popularity of Buddhism by combining traditions established by the Vedas with new ideas to form a coherent whole and beginning the ethic religion of Hinduism.
What is the Bhagavad Gita?
The philosopher in Athens who was executed for questioning received wisdom and the ideas of leaders.
Who was Socrates?