History 142 Midterm

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center of Persian communication network

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Royal Road

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took case to Rome- uses the infrastructure of Rome by means of spread of Christianity

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Paul of Tarsus

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adopting Chinese culture

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Sinicization

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rebel who rebels against the Romans; she challenges the Roman empire from Great Britain

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Boudica

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She is like Boudica and led rebellions and challenged Roman empire

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Cleopatra

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Byzantine empire based around what city?

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Constantinople

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"he who enters doesn’t come back"

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Taklamakan Desert

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who spread Buddhism to China?

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merchants

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Who led a rebellion of slaves in the Roman empire?

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Spartacus

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What is the fundamental Doctrine of Buddhism?

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Four Noble Truth

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What are the Four Noble Truths?

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1) life is pain

2) pain is caused by desire

3) elimination of desire will bring an end to pain

4) living a life based on the Noble Eightfold Path will eliminate desire

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The final truth of the Buddhist Four Noble Truths that called for leading a life of balance and constant contemplation

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The Noble Eightfold Path

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Who are the Hellenistic philosophers who encouraged their followers to lead active, virtuous lives and to aid others?

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Stoics

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Anointed one

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Christ

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Daoist concept of a disengagement from the affairs of the world

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Wuwei

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large plantation; huge state-run and slave-worked farms in ancient Rome

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Latifundia

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What becomes more popular because of the rise of Daoism?

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Buddhism

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What was the greatest social contribution of the Jainists?

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they challenged

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first emperor of China— did not support traditional learning— legalists

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Qin Shihuangdi

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What did the Edict of Milan do?

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allowed Christians to practice their faith openly in the Roman Empire

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Which empire did Alexander the Great conquer?

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Seleucid empire

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Who established the Gupta dynasty?

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Chandra Gupta

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This disciple of Confucius held a naively optimistic view of human nature

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Mencius

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This disciple of Confucius believed that human beings selfishly pursued their own interests, no matter what effects their actions had on others.

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Xunzi

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underground canals; water not evaporating

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quanat

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who swept the ground in front of them? they didn't wanna hurt the bugs?

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Jains

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what faith has the Maxim: good words, good thoughts, good deeds?

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Zoroastrianism

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What is the most important port?

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Athens

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successive trade largely developed on what?

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monsoon winds

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He favored liberal policies and social reform; spent enormous sums of money sponsoring public spectacles (gladiators); confiscated property from conservatives and distributed to veterans of his army

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Julius Caesar

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He fashioned an imperial government; government was a monarchy disguised as a republic; centralized political and military power; reorganized military system- owing allegiance to the emperor

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Augustus Caesar

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A prominent aristocrat and the most important historian of the early Roman empire; deplored the loss of political courage among Roman leaders after the establishment of the imperial regime

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Cornelius Tacitus

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He was the official astrologer and chinese historian at the court of the Han dynasty in Chang'an; castrated because he had publicly expressed opinions that contradicted the ruler's judgment

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Sima Qian

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Who are Augustus' famous rivals?

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Anthony and Cleopatra

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He defeated several Roman armies and settled the prisoners in Iran- where Sasanids devoted their famous engineering skills to the construction of roads and dams.

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Shapur I

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What is the order of the Persian empire?

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1) Achaemenids

2) Seleucids

3) Parthians

4) Sasanids

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the smallest of the Hellenistic empires

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The Antigonid Empire

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the wealthiest of the Hellenistic Empires (in Egypt)

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The Ptolemaic Empire

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the largest of the Hellenistic empires; Greek and Macedonian colonists flocked to theses cities, where they joined the ranks of imperial bureaucrats and administrators

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The Seleucid Empire

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He limited the amount of land that a family could hold and ordered officials to break up large estates, redistribute them and provide landless individuals with property to cultivate

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Wang Mang

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Jain term for the principle of nonviolence to other living things or their souls

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ahimsa

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system of provincial government in the Persian Empire, in which administration is divided into provinces

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satrapies