Religions
While Rome attempted to stop the growth of this religion, missionaries such as Paul of Tarsus engaged in extensive missionary work and traveling to keep the religion alive despite Roman persecution
Christianity
The historical period following the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE is most commonly called....
Acceptable: Middle Ages, Dark Ages, Late Antiquity
The Middle East
Innovations such as the modern algebraic system, number system, concept of zero, theories of a round Earth that rotates on its axis, and iconic games like chess emerged out of this modern day country
India
The major selling product from China along the trading network across Asia
Silk
The pursuit of unity with Brahma through fulfilling one’s dharma is part of this religion
Hinduism
These two city-states had frequent wars despite shared cultural practices.
Athens and Sparta (Greece)
How did Persian policies encourage subject loyalty
Through cultural and religious toleration.
Ancient civilization that supported the ancient Harappan urban civilization known for advanced grid-planned cities, sophisticated sanitation, and extensive trade
Indus River Valley
Qin Dynasty philosophy
Legalism
Unlike Hinduism, Buddhism does not have this strict social hierarchy called...
The Caste System
We had a common currency and extensive road systems like the Via Appia
Roman Empire
The city that served as the cultural and administrative center of the Abbasid Caliphate
Baghdad
These allowed for predictable and safer seasonal trade routes from and to India
Monsoon winds
The _________ Empire issued in a Golden Age of imperial Chinese history, expanding territorially, as well as advancing Chinese culture, written language, poetry, art, medicine, technology, and philosophy
Han
Known as ______________, the religion that came to dominate Persia for more than 1200 years was a monotheistic religion-one that believed in a single, all-powerful deity
Zoroastrianism
I marched my army across Egypt, Anatolia, the Levant, and into Persia, ending the Achaemenid Empire, and continuing undefeated in battle to India and Central Asia until his death in 323 BCE
Alexander the Great
(Persian Empire)
Satraps
During the __________ Empire, many of the definitive Indian cultural icons were developed, as Indian art, poetry, science, mathematics, and architecture flourished
Gupta
Centuries of Chinese unity and relative peace under the Shang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty were shattered in roughly 475 BCE as the weakening Zhou Dynasty succumbed to the ______________ Period, as seven smaller states began to war for power and recognition until 221 BCE
Warring States
While short-lived in India itself, this religion was able to gain prominence and spread under the centralized Mauryan Empire (322 BC – 187 BC) once its beliefs had been adopted by the Maura Emperor Ashoka the Great
Buddhism
reek city-states were known for their lack of unity, and
frequently warred with one another for power, such as
during the ___________War between Athens and Sparta
Peloponnesian
What was the Jizya
A tax on non-Muslim monotheists for protection and exemption from military service.
Ashoka the Great
The term for the virtue of respecting, obeying, and caring for one's parents and older family members