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What were the environmental factors in Iran?
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Mountain Slopes and austere lands.
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Who were the first Iranian people to reach a complex level of political organization?
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Medes
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Who was responsible for unifying Iran?
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Cyrus
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What were the three social and occupational classes in Iran?
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Warriors, Priests and Peasants
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Who ruled their empire by respecting local priests and native traditions?
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Cyrus
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Who administered Persian provinces?
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a satrap
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What could Persian women do?
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Elite women could have property, trade and have political influence
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What did King Darius do? What was his system like?
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He traveled with a large entourage, had other people do a lot of his work.
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What did Darius use art for?
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Propaganda.
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What were the tenets of Zorastiranism?
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Good will conquer evil.
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How did Greece prosper economically?
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Trade and Ag
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What grew in the dry environment of Greece?
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Olives and Grapes
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How did the Greeks view the sea?
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saw it as a connector.
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What did greek farmers rely on?
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Rainfall
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What did the Greeks mine?
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marble, clay and metal deposits.
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What was the Greek Dark Age?
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Destruction of mycean, 1150-800 B.C.E.
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When was the Archaic Period in Greece?
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800-480 B.C.E.
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Why was the Phoenician alphabet beneficial to Greece?
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Made reading and writing easier.
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What were symbols of the recovery of the Archaic period?
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More population and property.
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What is Polis, acropolis and agora
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Polis is city state/ Acropolis is Top of city, point were people run to for safety/ Agora is open area where city is together
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What led to the development of hoplites?
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Constant fighting between city states.
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What led to the colonization of North Africa, Sicily, southern Italy and the Black Sea region?
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More room for growing population
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In what way were coins signifigant?
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Better trades, easier records and city controls.
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What is an oligarchy?
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Political priveledge by the wealthier members of society.
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Who participated in Greek democracy?
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Free adult males
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How did the Greeks worship their gods?
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Sacrifice
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How did the Greeks believe their gods gave advice?
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Through oracales and pythias.
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What was humanism?
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Enveloping of individuals.
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With what were the pre-Socratic philosphers concerned about?
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Natural phenoma in the world
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What did Greek thinkers think the world is made of?
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Elements and atoms.
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Who is the father of history in the western traditional?
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Herodotus.
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What type of society was Sparta?
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military polis
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What was the result of the Persian Wars?
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Made Greece stronger.
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What is the symbol of Athenian naval success?
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Their tiremes.
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Define sophists.
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Specious argument used for deceiving someone.
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What was humanism?
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Enveloping of the individual.
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What did Athenian slavery look like?
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All foreigns
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What benefits and detrements came from the Polynesian War?
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Benefits: Alexander the Great
Detriments: Violence |
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What policies did Alexander the Great use to rule his empire?
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Officials controlled everything.
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What happened to the empire after Alexander the Great died?
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It crumbled
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What were the cosmopolitan features of Hellenistic society?
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Lots of long distance trade.
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What was the greatest city of the Hellenistic Age?
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Alexandria
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What is the Hellenisitc age?
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After Alexander the Great died
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On what natural resources was the growth of the Roman State based?
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Wide varieties of crops, timber, iron and other metals.
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On what economic wealth was the growth of the Roman State based?
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Land and ag
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Who actually ruled the Roman Republic based on?
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Roman senate.
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In Roman society, the family was the basic unit under whose authority?
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Paterfamilias (oldest family)
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How did the Roman s' success in winning the loyalty of all Italy?
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Allowing everyone citizenship.
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What influence did Roman women have?
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Influenced men who controlled them.
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How did Romans view the natural world?
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As being controlled by spirits.
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Why were the wars against the Carthaginians important?
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Made them strongest super power in the Mediterranian.
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What did Rome do when it took control of a foreign land?
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made everyone in a city work for them.
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Who did most of the farming in Italy depend on?
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Slaves.
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What factor do scholars agree on why the Han and Romans were around at the same time?
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Slaves
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What emperor fixed rome in 31 BC?
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Cesar
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What was the safety and stability of the Roman empire called?
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Pax Romana
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What is the most enduring consequences of the Roman Empire?
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Romanization
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Before 212 CE what did people have to do to become Roman citizens?
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Give good service.
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Why did Romans not like Christians?
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Didn't worship emperor like everyone else.
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In what is Roman technological expertise evident?
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That many things still stand.
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From the reign of Augustus how was the roman army reorganized?
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Mostly Foreigners.
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What was the physical symptom of Rome's third century crisis?
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Frequent change of Ruler
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Who reformed Rome in the 3rd century and saved it from decline?
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Diocletan.
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Which emperor converted Christanity and saved Rome?
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Constantine
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What city was the new capital of Rome?
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Constantanoble
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Other than agriculture what was a fundemental resource in ChinA?
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Timber
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During the warring period what was a result of the competition among state?
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Better technology
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Who was considered to be part of the Chinese family?
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Everyone ever in the family.
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What was emphasized in Chinese values because of the influence of Confucianism?
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Family
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How did confucianism treat women?
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Like property.
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What is it customary for brides to do in China?
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Live in husbands family
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What does Shi huangdi mean?
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One of the founders of strict legalists
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When the Qin government abolished primogeniture?
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Made it easier for them to make money
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The Qin empire waned to standardize what?
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Units for ease of use.
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How did early han remake legalist system?
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Combined it with confucianism.
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What was the well planned urban capital of the Han dynasty?
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Changan.
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What did the Han dynasty do in order to supply administrators?
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Choose local people.
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Why was Daoism popular among commoners?
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Told them they could be anything they wanted to be.
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What important innovations came during Han dynasty?
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Iron tools, crossbows, watermill, horse collar, paper
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What was the leading export commodity of China during the Han dynasty?
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Silk
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