It's a Chicken Salad
Literally linked China with the West
What is the Silk Road?
The outer edges or outskirts of a region
What is periphery?
The machinery of government
What is bureaucracy?
A state in which the supreme power of the government rests with the people and their elected representatives, not a monarch or dictator
What is a republic?
A major reason that empires often collapsed
What is political instability?
Philosophy characterized by harmony and connection with nature
What is Daoism?
In 58 BCE, he led his armies to conquer Rome
Who is Caesar?
Consistent weights & measures is an example of this.
What is standardization?
Philosophies and/or religions that travel from culture to culture across the globe.
What are Portable Beliefs?
Portable Belief that spread east to China during the Han Dynasty.
What is Buddhism?
dollars, pennies, quarters, inches, feet, miles, etc.
What is an example of U.S. standardization?
Always builds value
What is trade?
476 CE
When did the (Western) Roman Empire officially fall?
The three Chinese belief systems
What are Daoism, Legalism, and Confusionism?
Roman citizens who comprised the greatest percentage of early Roman society (pre Ceasar)
Who are the Plebians?
The dynasty that unified China
What is the Qin Dynasty?
The most important relationship, according to Confucius
What is Filial Piety (relationship with parents)?
The Mandate of Heaven
What is the belief that emperors were ordained by the gods to rule over the people?
Nomads/Hunter Gatherers --> Settled Farmers --> Large Local Civilizations --> Expansive Cross-Cultural Empires
What is the development of civilizations to empires?
Water pumps and bridges in china are an example of this
What is infrastructure?
An example of a large trade network that stretched from Eastern Asia (china) to Europe/across the mediterranean
What is the silk road?
The Romans who turned from subsistence farming to lucrative crops (ex. olives) relied on this and their population grew to 1/3 of the Italian peninsula
What are slaves/slave labor?
cities, bureaucracy, standardization, militarism, etc.
The 10 characteristics of an empire
What are portable beliefs, militarism & expansion, heirarchy, bureacracy, standardization, unification of diverse peoples, strong central government, rule of one people over another, extensive infrastructure, and large trade networks?
What is the Qin