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Chapter 2 Chart: Classical Civilizations
Use WHRP Chapter 2 to fill in the chart. For full credit: you must list and DESCRIBE. Regular World History should have a total of 25 bullet points for full
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GREECE
ROME
(Greek city-states, Alexander’s Empire)
(Roman Republic, Roman Empire)
Representative Democracy
Forum: public place for assembly
Laws of the 12 Tables (Roman Law)
Tribune: represented Plebians (veto power over Senate)
Roman Law: due process (innocent until proven guilty)
Julius Caesar-Conquered Carthage and Gaul
Philip II of Macedonia
(Became Dictator)
Political (2.2-2.4)
Alexander the Great (Empire)- conquered Persians, Egypt,
Augustus Caesar (Octavian)
specific names of
India (Hellenistic Culture)
Empire- Western Europe, Asia Minor and North Africa (Mare
leaders, type of
Archon- Pericles “The Funeral Oration”
Nostra- Mediterranean Lake)
government, war,
Athenian Direct Democracy
Roman Legions- stationed around empire
treaties, courts, laws,
Council of 500- (Citizens over 30- proposed laws)
Set up provinces to organize
capital cities
Assembly of 6000 – had to approve the law
Fall of Empire: Military: decline in population
Politically: Huns forced Germanic tribes (barbarians)
toward Rome (Rome could not protect)
Emperors became weak and corrupt
Diocletian Split: 285 CE
Rome fell in 476 CE
Economic (2.2-2.4)
money, types of
businesses, trade goods,
trade partners, food
production, taxes
Religious (2.5)
holy books, beliefs and
teachings, religious
morals, deities (gods),
burial practices
poor soil led to a heavy reliance on imports
Social Structure: Citizens were native born, Male, 18+, free
Polytheistic (Apollo etc.)
network of roads used for trade
Social Structure: Patricians, Plebians, Slaves
Pax Romana- 200 year period of peace and prosperity
Polytheistic at first
Judea was a Roman Province where Judaism was
prominent
Christianity originated and spread in Judea to other areas
in the Roman Empire (Paul of Tarsus)
Constantine issued Edict of Milan 313 CE (protecting
Christians)
Emperor Theodosius made Christianity the official state
religion
Ideas/Inventions (2.7)
philosophy, inventions,
technology, writing,
literature, engineering
Arts/Architecture (2.6)
painting, sculpture,
buildings
Greek Philosophy- Knowledge
Socratic Method- Question to think
Plato- Enlightened, educated (electoral college)
“Allegory of the Cave” – Seeing the light
Aristotle-Scientific Method
Euclid and Pythagoras- modern Geometry
Archimedes- machines (Pulleys and levers)-Physics
Eratosthenes- Astronomer (earth was round)
Greco Roman
Musular and idealized bodies
Realistic clothing
Epic Poems, Prose, and Drama
Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeniad
– heroes and adventures
Tragedies (Sophocles Oedipus Rex)
Important because they tell us about Greek Values
Herodotus- created history recounting the Persian Wars
Thucydides (History of Peloponnesian War)
Roman Engineering: Concrete (not cut stone)
System of Roads
Roman Architecture: arch and dome
Coliseum and the Panthenon
Livy- History of Rome (Glorified Glory of Rome)
INDIA
(Maurya & Gupta Empires)
Political (2.2-2.4)
specific names of
leaders, type of
government, war,
treaties, courts, laws,
capital cities
Economic (2.2-2.4)
money, types of
businesses, trade goods,
trade partners, food
production, taxes
Religious (2.5)
holy books, beliefs and
teachings, religious
morals, deities (gods),
burial practices
Ideas/Inventions (2.7)
philosophy, inventions,
technology, writing,
literature, engineering
Chandragupta Maurya- Founder of Mauryan Civilization,
defeated Greeks and united Indus and Ganges River
civilizations
Bindusara (Chandra’s son) and his grandson Asoka
extended empire
Divided Four Provinces
Gupta Empire: Srigupta (founder) (N. half of India)
Khyber Pass- Trade route contact with other civs.
used silver coins decorated with wheel symbols
Buddhism: ascetic life (denies worldly comfort)
Enlightenment
Four Noble Truths: Suffering
Nirvana
Hinduism: Polytheistic
Buddhism and Hinduism: Reincarnation Nivana
Asoka: Rock Edicts
Asoka Sent missionaires
decimal system and surgical innovations
CHINA
(Qin & Han Dynasties)
Qin- Founded after the Zhou (warring states Period”
Disorder led to philosophies of how to restore order
(Legalism, Confucianism, Daoism)
Shi Huangdi-founder Qin
Strict Legalism
Built Great Wall (Mongols)
Han (followed Qin)
Gao Zu- founder
Used Confucianism instead of legalism
Han Dynasty: Silk Road- connected China to India,
Mesopotamia, and Europe
-traded silks, slaves, jewels,
Glassware, and spices
Buddhism spread to China
wood pulp paper and block printing
Arts/Architecture (2.6)
painting, sculpture,
buildings
Visual Art (usually Religious-Hindu or Buddhist)
Asoka- Rock of Edicts (India)
Ajanta Caves- walls and ceilings
Architecture: Tied to religion
Cave entrances decorative carvings of gods and
goddesses
Columns and Arches, like Roman Arch.
Stupas: shrines w/Buddhist Relics
Paintings both on silk and paper
Captured outward and inner essence (simple lines black
and white)
Calligraphy inscriptions
Metallurgy: worked with bronze for religion and practical
use
Architecture: not many left (wood)
She Huangdi- Built Great Wall Protect against Mongols
Necropolis