Locatio Time

Social Political Economic Religion Military Cultural

n Period
• Aristocrats lived • 1st truly unified • Unified weights • Legalism • Expanded to • Great Wall of
at the capital Chinese • Constructed • Opposers Vietnam China (4000
Xianyang government roads executed • Threat from miles)
• Merchants • Took throne at • Divided land to • Strict censorship Xiongnu • Terra-cotta army
viewed as 13 peasants • Built Great Wall
parasites; • Central to block invasion
Qin Shi Qin Dynasty
China heavily taxed bureaucracy • Iron, cavalry,
Huangdi 221.206
• Divided into crossbow
provinces/counti
es
• Positions by
merit

• Patricians • Complete • Gave land to the • Roman • Military hero • Solar calendar
(wealthy ruling control poor mythology who conquered
class) • Increased senate • Controlled Med. • Greek influence Gual
• Plebians size to 9000 Sea trade • No major • Crossed
(commoners) (weakened their religious Rubicon,
power) reforms marched into
• Republic: Rome defeating
consuls and Pompey
Roman praetors, senate, • Declared himself
Julius
Republic 47-44 BCE Centuriate, dictator for life
Caesar (Empire) Council of Plebs • Assassinated by
• Transformed senators
republic into • His death led to
empire decline of
republic; his
grand-nephew,
Octavian, was
the 1st Roman
emperor
• Greek state, • Tried to • Rebuilt • Christian • Under General • Hagia Sophia
Greek official reestablish Constantinople • Iconoclasm: use Belisarius • Hippodrome
language Roman Empire as center of of icons • Empire included • Amphitheaters
• Codification of empire widespread Italy, Spain, N. (chariot races)
Roman law • Largest (opposed by Africa and Asia • Public works
(Corpus Iuris population and iconoclasts) Minor
Civilis; Body of commercial • Emperor chose • After his death,
Justinia Byzantin
527-565 BC Civil Law) center by God and had left too much
n e Empire
• Trade with absolute power territory and
China, SE Asia, empty treasury
India, Russia and • Empire size
Balkans diminished;
became
Byzantine
Empire
• Nomadic • Ruled by military • Pastoral from • Not Muslim, • Unified Mongol
• Lived in yurts force the Gobi Desert difficult to adapt Tribes
(round tents • Original name, • Destroyed • Eventually • Attacked Persia,
Delhi covered in felt) Temuchin economy and converted to Abbasids at
Sultanate/ • Treated • Renamed cities Islam Baghdad, Song
Genghis India
Mongol conquered “universal ruler” • Persian influence in China
Khan (Mongol)
Empire people brutally • Empire divided