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100
The idea of democracy is believed to have first developed in this Greek city-state.
What is Athens?
100
This structure, a temple to the city’s patron goddess, was built under the guidance of Pericles after much of Athens was destroyed by the Persians.
What is the Parthenon?
100
Most empires saw a decline in the rights of which segment/demographic of the population?
Who are women?
100
This religion initially encountered much resistance until it was accepted by the Roman government.
What is Christianity?
100
This philosophy, which focuses on community and filial piety, first emerged in China’s Zhou Dynasty.
What is Confucianism?
200
This idea was utilized in Chinese dynasties to justify the position of the leader in government.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
200
Empires often built defensive walls and fortifications to do these two things.
What are protect from invasions and project military power?
200
These individuals in Rome were unable to own property or to represent themselves in legal proceedings. They even had to depend on guardians to advocate for their interests.
Who are women?
200
This factor enabled empires to gather wealth and increase in size and influence.
What is trade?
200
Slowly, this religion began to spread to China from India via merchants along the silk roads.
What is Buddhism?
300
This age, ushered in by Alexander the Great, is a period of large kingdoms, long distant trade and communication, new scholarship and science, art and literature, and a spread of Greek culture throughout Africa and Asia.
What is the Hellenistic Age?
300
This carefully made good was the main item traded between the Roman and the Han.
What is silk?
300
This together wealthy, powerful individuals of the empires were called this
Who are elites?
300
Trade along this route depended on seasonal winds known as monsoons.
What is the Indian Ocean trade route?
300
In India and Southeast Asia, women and the poor prefered this religion because it does not believe in the Caste system.
What is Buddhism?
400
This empire could be called a "theater state" as it was largely based on rituals, dramatic ceremonies, and cultural events supported by taxes collected by the central administration.
What is the Gupta Empire?
400
List three Han innovations.
What are steel, crossbow, horse collar, paper, silk, road building, and canals?
400
The highest members of India’s caste system had this type of profession.
What is priests?
400
Most early civilizations included these three components.
What are urban centers, growing populations, and writing systems?
400
Buddhism and this religion primarily spread through trade and missionaries.
What is Christianity?
500
This kingdom utilized standardized coinage, taxed its people, had a large imperial army, and converted to Buddhism.
What is the Maurya Empire?
500
This which empire emphasized observation and logic and is said to have greatly influenced the basic scientific method.
What are the Greek Empires?
500
The concept in Ancient Rome in which the oldest living male serves as the head of the household and the subservient role of the woman in the Indian empires could be described as...
What is patriarchal?
500
List 3 reasons for the fall of Classical Empires (the Han Dynasty in China, western Roman Empire, and the Gupta Empire in India).
What are invading nomads, imported diseases, and internal revolts?
500
The concept of wu-wei (action through non-action), was enforced by which belief system?
What is Daosim?