Download Unit 1 Part 2 Study Guide: Foundations of Government

Unit 1 Part 2 Study Guide: Foundations of Government
Ancient Government Key Terms and Key Questions by Region
Mesopotamia
City-states
Akkad
Hereditary
Empire
Monarchy
Hammurabi
Sumerians
The Code of Hammurabi
Babylonians
Codify
Theocracy
Criminal Laws
Sargon
Civil Laws
1. Why was it important that Hammurabi's Code was a written legal code?
2. What was the most important and lasting legacy of Hammurabi’s Code?
China
Mandate of Heaven
Han Dynasty
Dynastic Cycle
Shi Huangdi
Dynasty
Legalism
Shang Dynasty
Wudi
Zhou Dynasty
Silk Road
Feudalism
Civil Servants
1. What causes a dynasty to lose the Mandate of Heaven?
2. How did Shi Huangdi unify China and establish a legalist government?
3. How and why did the Han Empire fall?
Egypt
Dynasty
Vizier
Pharaoh (right to rule=gods)
Monarchy/Theocracy
Greece
Polis
Citizen
Monarchy
Macedonia
Oligarchy
Socrates
Direct Democracy
Plato
Aristocracy
Aristotle
Sparta
Alexander the Great
Athens
Hellenistic Age
Branches of Athenian Government
Assimilation
(legislative, executive, judicial)
Alexandria
1. In what way is Athens more democratic than Sparta?
2. In what way was Classical Greek Democracy both a success and failure?
3. Why was Alexander the Great so “great”?
Rome
Etruscans
Republic
Indirect Democracy
Patricians
Plebeians
Branches of Government
(executive, legislative)
Consuls
Senate
Tribunes
Veto
Julius Caesar
Augustus
Census
Inflation
Imperialism
Empire
Military Dictatorship
“bread and circuses”
Dictators
Byzantine Empire
Constantine
World History/Cottrell
Roman Women
The 12 Table
Pax Romana
Constantinople
Justinian
Justinian Code
1. What social rights did women have in the Roman Republic?
2. What events led to the decline of the Roman Republic?
3. What factors led to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire?
India
Chandragupta
Mauryan Empire
Bureaucracy
Dissent
Ashoka
Golden Age
1. How did Maurya rulers create a strong central government for their empire?