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509 BCE- Founding of the Roman Republic
36-323 BCE-Reign of Alexander the Great
321-185 BCE-Indians Mauryan
206 BCE - 330 CE China has dynasty empire
44 BCE Julias Ceaser shanked by his homies
27 BCE Fall of the Western Roman Empire
476 CE Fall of the Roman Empire.
184 CE Yellow turban Revolt
Philip II of Macedon was the King of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon from 359 BC until his assassination in 336 BC.
Alexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great was a King of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.
Patrician- a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat. a person of very good background, education, and refinement. a member of the original senatorial aristocracy in ancient Rome.
Augustus was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD. He was born Gaius Octavius into an old and wealthy equestrian branch of the plebeian Octavii family.
Pax Romana- the peace that existed between nationalities within the Roman Empire.
Qin Shi Huang, personal name Ying Zheng, was the King of the state of Qin who conquered all other Warring States and united China in 221 BC
Dependence on moral law rather than on personal religious faith
Confucianism- a system of philosophical and ethical teachings founded by Confucius and developed by Mencius.
Public Works- The work of building such as roads, schools, and school, and reservoirs
The Mandate of Heaven (Chinese: 天命; pinyin: tiānmìng; literally: "heaven decree") is an ancient Chinese belief and philosophical idea that tiān (heaven) granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well and fairly.
The Son of Heaven (Chinese and Japanese: 天子; pinyin: Tiānzǐ; ) is an imperial title of East Asian monarchs founded on the Mandate of Heaven. The Son of Heaven is a universal emperor who rules tianxia comprising "all under heaven".
Assimilation-The process by which a person or persons acquire the social and psychological characteristics of a group
Citizenship is the status of being a citizen. If you have citizenship in a country, you have the right to live there, work, vote, and pay taxes! Citizenship comes from the Latin word for city, because in the earlier days of human governments, people identified themselves as belonging to cities more than countries.
Centralized- government that controls everything in a given area.
The term civil service can refer to either a branch of governmental service in which individuals are employed (hired) on the basis of professional merit as proven by competitive examinations; or the body of employees in any government agency apart from the military.
The Byzantine Empire, or Eastern Roman Empire, was the predominantly Greek-speaking continuation of the eastern part of the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Its capital city was Constantinople, originally founded as Byzantium.
Ashoka Maurya or Ashoka, popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent.
The Arthashastra is an ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, economic policy and military strategy, written in Sanskrit.
A textile or cloth is a flexible woven material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by spinning raw fibres of wool, flax, cotton, or other material to produce long strands
I. Empires and Civilizations in Collision: The Persians and the Greeks
A. The Persian Empire
1. King of Kings: Cyrus & Darius
2. Multiculturalism
3. Infrastructure
B. The Greeks
1. Hellenes
2. City-states
3. Expansion by migration
4. Citizens and hoplites
C. Collision: The Greco-Persian Wars
1. Ionia
2. Athens: Victorious, democratic, and imperial
3. The Peloponnesian War, 431–404 b.c.e.
II. Comparing Empires: Roman and Chinese
A. Rome: From City-State to Empire
1. An upstart republic
2. An expansionist warrior society
3. Changing gender norms
4. Civil war and the death of the republic
B. China: From Warring States to Empire
1. Qin Shihuangdi’s brutal quest for order
2. The moralistic and moderate Han
C. Consolidating the Roman and Chinese Empires
1. Supernatural sanctions
2. Absorbing foreign religion
3. Paths to assimilation
4. The use of language
5. Bureaucracy versus aristocracy
D. The Collapse of Empires
1. Over-extension
2. Rivalries amongst elites
3. Pressures from nomadic people
4. Revival?
III. Intermittent Empire: The Case of India
A. The Aryan Controversy
B. Political fragmentation and cultural diversity, but a distinctive religious tradition
C. Mauryan Empire (326-184 b.c.e.)
D. Ashoka (r. 268-232 b.c.e.)
E. Gupta Empire (320-550 c.e.)
F. Great civilizational achievements without a central state
IV. Reflections: Enduring Legacies of Second-Wave Empires
A. Mao Zedong and Qin Shihuangdi
B. Ashoka in modern India
C. British imperial and Italian fascist uses of Rome
36-323 BCE-Reign of Alexander the Great
321-185 BCE-Indians Mauryan
206 BCE - 330 CE China has dynasty empire
44 BCE Julias Ceaser shanked by his homies
27 BCE Fall of the Western Roman Empire
476 CE Fall of the Roman Empire.
184 CE Yellow turban Revolt
Philip II of Macedon was the King of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon from 359 BC until his assassination in 336 BC.
Alexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great was a King of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.
Patrician- a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat. a person of very good background, education, and refinement. a member of the original senatorial aristocracy in ancient Rome.
Augustus was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD. He was born Gaius Octavius into an old and wealthy equestrian branch of the plebeian Octavii family.
Pax Romana- the peace that existed between nationalities within the Roman Empire.
Qin Shi Huang, personal name Ying Zheng, was the King of the state of Qin who conquered all other Warring States and united China in 221 BC
Dependence on moral law rather than on personal religious faith
Confucianism- a system of philosophical and ethical teachings founded by Confucius and developed by Mencius.
Public Works- The work of building such as roads, schools, and school, and reservoirs
The Mandate of Heaven (Chinese: 天命; pinyin: tiānmìng; literally: "heaven decree") is an ancient Chinese belief and philosophical idea that tiān (heaven) granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well and fairly.
The Son of Heaven (Chinese and Japanese: 天子; pinyin: Tiānzǐ; ) is an imperial title of East Asian monarchs founded on the Mandate of Heaven. The Son of Heaven is a universal emperor who rules tianxia comprising "all under heaven".
Assimilation-The process by which a person or persons acquire the social and psychological characteristics of a group
Citizenship is the status of being a citizen. If you have citizenship in a country, you have the right to live there, work, vote, and pay taxes! Citizenship comes from the Latin word for city, because in the earlier days of human governments, people identified themselves as belonging to cities more than countries.
Centralized- government that controls everything in a given area.
The term civil service can refer to either a branch of governmental service in which individuals are employed (hired) on the basis of professional merit as proven by competitive examinations; or the body of employees in any government agency apart from the military.
The Byzantine Empire, or Eastern Roman Empire, was the predominantly Greek-speaking continuation of the eastern part of the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Its capital city was Constantinople, originally founded as Byzantium.
Ashoka Maurya or Ashoka, popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent.
The Arthashastra is an ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, economic policy and military strategy, written in Sanskrit.
A textile or cloth is a flexible woven material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by spinning raw fibres of wool, flax, cotton, or other material to produce long strands
I. Empires and Civilizations in Collision: The Persians and the Greeks
A. The Persian Empire
1. King of Kings: Cyrus & Darius
2. Multiculturalism
3. Infrastructure
B. The Greeks
1. Hellenes
2. City-states
3. Expansion by migration
4. Citizens and hoplites
C. Collision: The Greco-Persian Wars
1. Ionia
2. Athens: Victorious, democratic, and imperial
3. The Peloponnesian War, 431–404 b.c.e.
II. Comparing Empires: Roman and Chinese
A. Rome: From City-State to Empire
1. An upstart republic
2. An expansionist warrior society
3. Changing gender norms
4. Civil war and the death of the republic
B. China: From Warring States to Empire
1. Qin Shihuangdi’s brutal quest for order
2. The moralistic and moderate Han
C. Consolidating the Roman and Chinese Empires
1. Supernatural sanctions
2. Absorbing foreign religion
3. Paths to assimilation
4. The use of language
5. Bureaucracy versus aristocracy
D. The Collapse of Empires
1. Over-extension
2. Rivalries amongst elites
3. Pressures from nomadic people
4. Revival?
III. Intermittent Empire: The Case of India
A. The Aryan Controversy
B. Political fragmentation and cultural diversity, but a distinctive religious tradition
C. Mauryan Empire (326-184 b.c.e.)
D. Ashoka (r. 268-232 b.c.e.)
E. Gupta Empire (320-550 c.e.)
F. Great civilizational achievements without a central state
IV. Reflections: Enduring Legacies of Second-Wave Empires
A. Mao Zedong and Qin Shihuangdi
B. Ashoka in modern India
C. British imperial and Italian fascist uses of Rome