Western Rome
The capital city of the Western Roman Empire
Rome
The Byzantine Empire is also known as this
The Eastern Roman Empire
The Sassanid ______________ ruled Persia for about four hundred years, until Persia was conquered by Arabs.
dynasty
The _________ dynasty ruled in India from 300 - 467 CE
Gupta
This network of trade routes was named after this major product from China
The Silk Road
This empire traded silk along the trade route that connected all the way to Rome.
Han China
The Byzantine Empire reorganized old Roman laws into this new code - named after the emperor that ordered it.
Justinian's Code
To make trade easier for travelers along the silk road in their empire, Sassanid Persia used this
a single system of money
This empire invested in the arts & ___________
sciences
To travel to Han China from Rome, someone would have to travel in this direction along the trade routes
East
This term was used to describe a time of peace and prosperity in the Western Roman Empire.
Pax Romana
The capital of the Byzantine Empire was this city, located between the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea
Constantinople
The Persians fought with the Western Roman Empire & The Byzantine Empire over control of this region
Armenia
Roads
The spread of Buddhism into China came as a result of contact between China and this other Asian Empire.
India
Diocletian tried to make it easier to govern the Roman Empire by doing this
dividing it into two
The Hagia Sophia was decorated with this type of artwork, popular in the Byzantine Empire
Mosaics
The Persian empire fought against which neighbor to the west - just beyond Armenia? (Their capital was in Constantinople)
Byzantine Empire
A major outsider threat to the empire in Gupta India (Also a threat to Persians, Romans, and Chinese)
The Huns
This group conquered Han China - they were a major threat to all of the empires of this unit
The Huns
The Western Roman Empire was finally brought to an end by invasions by who?
barbarians
Justinian's Code gave more rights to which groups? (3)
Women
Children
Slaves
What group conquered Persia after the Sassanids?
The Arabs
This was a major mathematical achievement of Gupta India
Invented an number system / zero.
While China sent silk west, they highly valued this transparent material often sent in return from the Roman Empire.
glassware