Exam 2 Review HIST105

Important culture of what is now the southwest United States (700-1300 CE) centered in New Mexico:

A council whose members were the heads of wealthy, landowning families and was an advisory body to early Roman kings:

A term used to designate the ethnic Chinese people in the Yellow River Valley and the dynasty of emperors in 202-220 CE:

Civilization on the north coast of Peru (200-700 CE). It was an important Andean civilization:

Founder of the short-lived Qin dynasty and creator of the Chinese empire, remembered for the conquest of rival states:

Name of the capital city and empire centered on the region near Lake Titicaca in modern Bolivia (500-1000 CE):

The honorific name of Octavian, founder of the Roman principate which replaced the failing rule of the Roman Senate:

A fundamental social relationship in ancient Rome in which a patron provided economic and legal protection to clients:

A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-750 CE) whose population was more than 125,000 at its peak in 450 CE:

"Great Vehicle" branch of Buddhism followed in China, Japan, and Central Asia; focuses on reverence for the Buddha:

A general term for a wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity:

A powerful civilization, also called the kingdom of Chimor, that developed on Peru's north coast from 1200-1470s CE:

Powerful postclassic state in central Mexico (900-1175 CE) that influenced much of Mesoamerica:

The kingdoms of southern India inhabited primarily by speakers of Dravidian languages developed in partial isolation:

Seasonal winds in the Indian Ocean caused by the difference in temperature between land and sea:

A powerful Indian state based on a capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley which controlled most of the subcontinent

Roman emperor (r. 306-337) who reunited the Roman Empire, made Christianity a favored religion, and moved the capital:

Andean civilization culturally linked to Tiwanaku, perhaps beginning as a colony of Tiwanaku:

The most important work of Indian sacred literature, a dialogue between the warrior Arjuna and the god Krisha:

The period from 507-31 BCE in which Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate:

Raised fields constructed along lakeshores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yield:

A state based on the Indonesian island of Sumatra between the seventh and eleventh centuries CE:

The first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 BCE:

An early complex society in Southeast Asia between the first and sixth centuries CE centered in southern Vietnam:

In Indian tradition, the residue of deeds performed in past/present lives that adhere to a spirit in future lives:

Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of rulers or religious organizations:

Andean lineage group or kin-based community:

Form of political organization with rule by a hereditary leader who holds power over several villages and towns:

A people and state in the Wei River Valley of eastern China that conquered rival kingdoms to make the 1st Chinese empire

Prosperous landowners in ancient Italy who were second in wealth/status to the senatorial aristocracy:

Regional groups of people with a common occupational sphere who typically interact and marry with others in their group:

Early Indian sacred "knowledge" preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and later written down:

A massive stone monument on the Indonesian island of Java, erected by the Sailendra kings around 800 CE:

The Hindu concept of the spirit's "liberation" from an endless cycle of rebirths:

City in the Wei River Valley on the western edge of the North China Plain. It became the capital of the early Han Empire

A hoofed animal indigenous to the Andes Mountains in South America and was a prominent beast of burden in the Americas:

The first Mesoamerican civilization between 1200-400 BCE which greatly influenced later societies:

The first major urban civilization in South America (900-250 BCE) with its capital at Chavin de Huantar:

An Indian prince who renounced his wealth and social position to search for truth; enunciated the principles of Buddhism

Historical term for the political, military, and economic turmoil that beset the Roman Empire in the 3rd century CE:

Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula with major contributions to math and astronomy:

A Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia who initially persecuted Jesus' followers, but later became Christian:

A term used to characterize Roman government in the first 3 centuries CE using princeps to conceal a dictatorship:

A vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in early India:

A Jew from Galilee in northern Israel who sought to reform Jewish beliefs and practices; became a key Christian figure:

The throne name of Liu Bang, one of the rebel leaders who brought down the Qin and founded the Han dynasty in 202 BCE:

Historian's term for a state that acquires prestige and power by developing attractive cultural forms:

A conduit that uses gravity to carry water from a source to a location that needed it. The Romans built many of these:

Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India who converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on stones/pillars:

The four major Buddhist social divisions; priests, warriors/administrators, merchants/farmers, and laborers:

Chief astrologer for the Han dynasty emperor Wu. He composed a monumental history of China:

A confederation of nomadic peoples living beyond the northwest frontier of ancient China:

Which is not a common feature of homes in Pompeii?

"Teachings of the Elders" branch of Buddhism followed in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. It downplays importance of gods: