AP World HistoryClassical Civilizations

(600 B.C.E. to 600 C.E.)

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The Roman Coliseum at Night

Stayer Chapters 3 – 6

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Map Work

Draw the boundaries of the Zhou, Qin, and Han Empires and label each accordingly. Label:

o Draw in the Great Wall and label.o Label the Huanghe River (a.k.a. Yellow River)o Label the Yangtze Rivero Label Koreao Label Mongolia

Draw the boundaries of the Mauryan and Gupta Empires and label each ac-cordingly.

Label: o Indus River o Ganges Rivero Sri Lanka (a.k.a. “Celon” in the

past)o Himalaya Mts

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Using the maps on page 72 & 73, draw the outline of the Greek civilization’s boundaries in 431 BCE and

Label the following: (NOTE: the orange, green, and purple areas are ALL Greek) o Sparta o Asia Minor o Peloponnesuso Athens o Mediterranean Sea o Ioniao Aegean Sea o Macedonia o Crete

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Using the maps on page 109 & 110, draw the outline of the Byzantine (a.k.a. Eastern Roman Empire) and Sassanid Empires then

Label the following: o Kingdom of the Franks.o Kingdom of the Vandals.o Kingdom of the Ostrogothso Kingdom of the Visigothso Byzantine Empire. o Sassanid Empire

The Olmec civilization is located at The Inca civilization is located at The Maya civilization is located at The Aztec civilization located at

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Reading Questions - Chapter 31. How did Persian and Greek civilizations differ in their political organization and values? Page

108

2. How did semi-democratic governments emerge in some of the Greek city-states? Page 111

3. What were the consequences for both sides of the encounter between the Persians and the Greeks? Page 113

4. What changes did Alexander’s conquests bring in their wake? Page 114

5. How did Rome grow from a single city to the center of a huge empire? Page 118

6. Why was the Chinese empire able to take shape so quickly, while that of the Romans took cen-turies? Page 122

7. Why were the Roman and Chinese empires able to enjoy long periods of relative stability and prosperity? Page 123

8. What internal and external factors contributed to the collapse of the Roman and Chinese em-pires? Page 129

9. Why were centralized empires so much less prominent in India than in China? Page 132

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Reading Questions - Chapter 41. What different answers to the problem of disorder arose in classical China? Page 150

2. Why has Confucianism been defined as a “humanistic philosophy” rather than a supernatural religion? Page 152

3. How did the Daoist outlook differ from that of Confucianism? Page 155

4. In what ways did the religious traditions of South Asia change over the centuries? Page 158

5. In what ways did Buddhism reflect Hindu traditions, and in what ways did it challenge them? Page 160

6. What is the difference between the Theravada and Mahayana expressions of Buddhism? Page 161

7. What new emphases characterized Hinduism as it responded to the challenge of Buddhism? Page 164

8. What aspects of Zoroastrianism and Judaism subsequently found a place in Christianity and Is-lam? Page 165

9. What was distinctive about the Jewish religious tradition? Page 166

10. What are the distinctive features of the Greek intellectual tradition? Page 168

11. How would you compare the lives and teachings of Jesus and the Buddha? In what different ways did the two religions evolve after the deaths of their founders? Page 172

12. In what ways was Christianity transformed in the five centuries following the death of Jesus? Page 173

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Reading Questions - Chapter 51. How would you characterize the social hierarchy of China during the second-wave era? Page

193

2. What class conflicts disrupted Chinese society? Page 196

3. What set of ideas underlies India’s caste-based society? Page 199

4. What is the difference between varna and jati as expressions of caste? Page 200

5. How did the inequalities of slavery differ from those of caste? Page 204

6. How did Greco-Roman slavery differ from that of other classical civilizations? Page 205

7. What can Spartacus’s revolt tell us about the nature of the slave system in the Roman Empire? Page 209

8. In what ways did the expression of Chinese patriarchy change over time, and why did it change? Page 210

9. How did the patriarchies of Athens and Sparta differ from each other? Page 213

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Reading Questions - Chapter 61. What similarities and differences are noticeable among the three major continents of the world?

Page 230

2. How did the history of Meroë and Axum reflect interaction with neighboring civilizations? Page 234

3. How does the experience of the Niger Valley challenge conventional notions of “civilization”? Page 239

4. With what Eurasian civilizations might the Maya be compared? Page 243

5. In what ways did Teotihuacán shape the history of Mesoamerica? Page 244

6. What kind of influence did Chavín exert in the Andes region? Page 247

7. What features of Moche life characterize it as a civilization? Page 248

8. What was the significance of Wari and Tiwanaku in the history of Andean civilization? Page 248

9. In what ways did the process of Bantu expansion stimulate cross-cultural interaction? Page 253

10. In what ways were the histories of the Ancestral Pueblo and the Mound Builders similar to each other, and how did they differ? Page 255

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Unit Review1. Identify two similarities in Classical Civilization social structures.

2. Identify two similarities in Classical Civilization government structures.

3. Explain two continuities in Classical Civilization religious systems.

4. Draw an image of two Classical Civilizations.

5. Do you think that these second-wave empires hold “lessons” for the present, or are con-temporary circumstances sufficiently unique as to render the distant past irrelevant?

6. What changes in the patterns of social life in second-wave civilizations can you identify?

7. How do you understand areas of the world, such as Bantu Africa and North America, that did not generate civilizations”? Do you see them as “backward,” as moving slowly toward civilization, or as simply different?

8. “The particular cultures and societies of Africa and of the Americas discussed in this chapter developed largely in isolation.” What evidence would support this statement, and what might challenge it?

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IdentifyWho? What? Where? When?

1. Syncretism

2. Coptic Christianity

3. Mahayana Buddhism

4. Theravada Buddhism

5. Legalism

6. Zoroastrianism

7. Filial Piety

8. Mandarin

9. Jatis

10. Vedas

11. Stupas

12. Ashoka

13. Upanishads

14. Rajputs

15. Twelve Tables

16. Hellenistic

17. Silk Routes

18. Teotihuacan

19. Yellow Turbans

20. Bodhistavas

21. Pax Romana

22. Trung Trac

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23. Perpetua

24. Yellow Turban Rebellion

25. Spartacus

26. Patriarchy

27. Chavin

28. Greek rationalism

29. Athenian Democracy

30. Kushan Empire

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