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Chapter 7
India's Empire
Chapter 8
Ancient China
Chapter 9
Chinese Empire
Chapter 10 Ancient Greece
Chapter 11
Ancient Greek Civilization
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Who was Chandragupta Maurya? Describe how he divided the empire and how he ruled?
Chandragupta Maurya was an emperor who was trained and guided by Kautilya, and older Brahmin. Maurya divided the empire into four regions and each region was divided into provinces. He set a bureaucracies and appointed officials in each region to carry out the emperor's orders. He also set up taxes on crops and used the tax to pay government officials.
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What are the two main rivers?
What is Huang and Chang
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Who was Zing Zheng?
What is the emperor of Qin who unified China and created the strongest kingdom in western China
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What is a peninsula and what is the Peloponnesian Peninsula?
What is a land area almost surrounded by water. Peloponnesian Peninsula is a peninsula that extended from southern Greece
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What was the Delian League? What was the Peloponnesian League?
What is Delian League -> Athens alliance with other other city - states. Peloponnesian League -> Sparta's alliance with other city - states
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Who united India again?
What is Chandra Gupta I
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What are oracle bones?
What is animal bones or turtle shells carved with written characters that the Shang kings used to tell the future
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What are some challenges that the Qin empire had?
What is the risk of rebellion, threat of invasion, and languages and customs varied
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By what seas was Ancient Greece surrounded by?
What is Aegean, Mediterranean, and Ionian
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What is marathon?
What is a challenging foot race
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Describe Ashoka's Stone Pillars.
What is they had columns with messages carved into them, they also had an apology to the people of Kalinga, and urged people to respect parents, be generous to others, have the respect for other religions
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Describe the Huang river
What is also called the Yellow River because the loess from the Gobi Dessert. Loess made the river yellow and muddy --> river overflows leaving the fertile soil --> good farming and food which lead to first settlements.
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What was the Great Wall and what was it used for?
What is a long wall running east and west along his empire's northern border. It was used for defending the empire from nomads.
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What was the Minoan Civilization and where did it begin?
What is it developed on crete and island south of Mainland Greece. They had highly advanced civilizations with writing systems, stone palaces, and running water.
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Explain the rise of Macedonia
What is land in north of Greek peninsula and governed by kings; Influenced by Greek culture and Part of the Persian Empire, but regained independence after by Xerxes
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How did Ashoka improve life?
He improved life by setting up hospitals, digging wells, building wells, and promoted trade
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Why was China so isolated? Be specific
Because it was surrounded by barriers. It had the Taklimakan Desert to the north, Gobi Desert to the west, the Himalayas that form a wall between China and India, Mountains to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the east.
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What was the Han's Social Order?
What is Scholars -> Farmers -> Artisans -> Merchants -> Slaves
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Describe the Trojan War? Who was it against? What was the outcome?
What is a war between Troy and Mycenaean. It was a 10 year conflict. The Greeks tricked the Trojans by gifting them with a large wooden horse where the Greeks where hiding in. Greek army entered and burned Troy to the ground.
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who was alexander the great and describe how Alexander takes over
What is Gained throne after Phillip died and Greatly influenced by Aristotle, scientist and philosopher. he regained control of Greece and gained loyalty from soldiers by personally leading them in battle
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What are the three principles?
1. Principle of Well - being: must rule people well 2. Principle of Ahimsa - one should not hurt any living thing 3. Principle of Tolerance - respected different beliefs and customs
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Compare and Contrast the Yin and Yang
What is Yin - female; dark; cool; quiet. Yang - bright, active, warm, male. They are both two great forces that balance and work in nature. Also, they are part of the Daoism religion
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Who was Ban Zhao and how is she different from other women?
What is a specific women who received good education; became historian in royal court; and fought for education for women. The other women worked at home, weaved, and took care of children and elderly. They did not receive education.
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Compare and Contrast citizens vs. non citizens. Give me three examples for each
What is Citizens -> adult males, farmers who owned large plots, and tenant farmers who rented land to grow crops (thetes). Non citizens -> women and children, metics, and slaves.
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What was Mount Olympus?
What is the home to the major gods