Midterm

Front 1

A time when cultural and intellectual ideas arose around the region of Eurasia.
S: it created a new set of long-lasting and durable ideas and also lengthening trade routes and by making empires fragile thus they were moldable

Back 1

Commerce that takes place in fixed markets or trading paces and carried good go through middlemen along the trade routes.
S: This allowed good to go further without the merchants having to go a further distance. And also the Eurasian trade depended in to

Front 2

Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, and first to take the title as emperor, and ruled during the warring states time period.
S: He etsbalished organized principle for future chinese dynasties and by sweeping away the waring states he made easier for future chinese empires to rise.

Back 2

Bones used by the Shang Dynasty. The bones would placed over heat until they crack and the elites then read the crack and interpreted their future from these. They would then write on the bones what they interpreted
S: Not only did they create the first chinese writing system that was universally read but also gives historians insight into the elite of the Shang dynasty

Front 3

A time period were abundant game was guaranteed due to amounts of animal, wheat and fruit they were able to obtain.
S: High levels of nutrition and more time for things like art.

Back 3

A concept that when seeing the benefits believers are getting from their religions, people base joining and accepting the beliefs of anthers religion primarily based on the benefits.
S: Religions were able to grow in converts, and especially heavily influneced Buddhism.

Front 4

Important principles in Buddhism that began to spread in the 6th century BCE.
S: These principles were appealing to many people because it justified their sufferings.

Back 4

A city in Mesoamerica, that was considered to be the nerve center of the empire.
S:It showed significant innovations and ideas as other empires did during that time, but being isolated suggests they did not model after another society

Front 5

The caliphate that succeeds the Ummayan in 750 CE, Based on the principles that Islam should be led by the descendant of Muhammad.
S: Led to the spilt of Muslims
Sunni-Anoyone could be the Caliph as long as in the same tribe and the Shites- Had to be hereditary to Muhammad.

Back 5

Emperor of the Mauryan empire, and was known for pulling down pillars and writing edicts on them that show compassion for his people.
S: He was a major example of elite conversion which led his major influence on the spread of Buddhism into Sri Lanka and eventually China.