Define The Following
Main Ideas
Compare/Contrast
Compare/Contrast
Essay Questions
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A line of blood-related rulers
What is Dynasty
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Where did empires come from?
What is River valley civilizations?
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What type of leadership ruled the empires?
What is Someone with wealth and authority.
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What were 1 or 2 similarities between all Empires?
What is Bureaucratic systems, large militaries.
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How would you compare monotheism to polytheism? Were the Athenian and Roman Empires monotheistic or polytheistic? How do you know this?
What is Monotheism is believing in one god Polytheism is believing in multiple gods. Athenian and Roman empires were Polytheistic. Juno, Atena, Zeus.
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Believing in multiple gods.
What is Polytheistic
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Why was slavery not used in the age of foragers?
What is They had no system of social hierarchy.
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What is one similarity and one difference between Greece and Roman Empires.
What is Similarity: Greece and Roman Empire had three components to their governments. Differences: Greece was Democratic in nature.
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For the empires around the Mediterranean sea, what is one reason they all fell?
What is Access to trade, conquest opportunities.
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Explain the transition Rome went through from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire?
What is Throughout its existence Rome evolved from a republic to an empire. The transition to an empire yielded a different leadership system than a republic.
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Where supreme power is held by the people.
What is Republic
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Why is the Athenian Empire not truly and empire?
What is It was made up of many city-states.
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Why did Rome decline
What is It's size caused eternal decay, and outsiders attacking.
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How did most Empires get money from their citizens?
What is Taxation
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A group of countries that are under a single supreme authority.
What is Empire
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What are 6 traits of an empire?
What is Emperor, Trade, Large territory, Strong armies, Technology, Religion.
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How did one become a slave in ancient empires?
What is Born into it, Committed a crime, Or owed debt to others.
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How did Greek Democracy influence western politics?
What is Western countries copied many aspects of Greek Democracy such as voting for representatives in government.
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Holding hereditary titles or offices
What is Aristocracy
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What empires lasted the longest and the shortest.
What is Least-Greek Longest-Persian
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How did one become free of slavery?
What is They can pay their way out, run away and get away with it, owners free them, captured and turned loose during war.
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How did Empires expand?
What is Tax and Conquring.