WHAP Unit 2 Chapter 3 Reading Guide
Name:
Date:
Hour:
Read Chapter 3 and Identify the following:
1.Achaemenid dynasty:
19.Sparta:
37.Qin dynasty:
2.Cyrus:
20.Alexander the Great:
38.Qin Shihuangdi:
3.Darius:
21.Greek Empire:
4.Ahura Mazda:
39.Legalism:
40.Great Wall of China
22.Alexandria:
5.Satraps:
6.Royal Road:
41.Han dynasty:
23.Ptolemaic Empire:
24.Seleucid Empire:
7.Persepolis:
8.Hellenes:
9.Citizens:
43.Han Wudi:
25.Hellenism:
44.Yellow Turban Rebellion:
26.Patricians:
27.Plebeians:
10.Helots:
11.Solon:
12.Pericles:
42.Sui dynasty:
45.Tang dynasty:
46.Song dynasty:
28.Senate
29.Twelve Tables:
47.Aryans:
48.Mauryan Empire:
13.Greco-Persian Wars:
30.Punic Wars:
49.Arthrashastra:
14.Battle of Marathon:
31.Carthage:
50.Ashoka:
15.Democracy:
32.Roman Empire:
51.Rock and Pillar Edicts:
33.Julius Caesar:
16.Parthenon:
17.Golden Age:
34.Augustus:
35.Pax Romana:
52.Gupta Empire:
53. Bureaucracy:
36.Period of Warring States:
18.Athens:
54. Constantinople
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Key Concept 2.2
I. Key states and empires
Development of States and Empires
What are they and where are they located?
II. New techniques of imperial administration
A. Rulers created
In what ways did they set up their administrations? How were they organized?
administrative institutions
in many regions
Persian:
Greek:
Roman:
China:
India:
B. Imperial governments
projected military power
over larger areas using a
variety of techniques
Examples of techniques:
Persia:
Greek:
Roman:
China:
India:
C. Much of the success of the
empires rested on their
promotion of trade and
economic integration of
building and maintaining
roads and issuing currencies
Examples of this:
Persia:
Greek:
Roman:
China:
India:
III. Unique social and economic dimensions developed in imperial societies in Afro-Eurasia and the Americas
A. Cities (List them and
describe their functions)
C. Imperial societies relied
on a range of methods to
Latifundia: (pg 232)
Slavery:
maintain the production of
food and provide rewards
for the loyalty of elites.
D. Patriarchy
(Explain its practice in each
location)
Taxation:
Legalism in China:
Persia:
Greece:
Rome:
IV. The Roman, Han, Persian, Mauryan, and Gupta empires created political, cultural, and administrative difficulties
that they could not manage, which eventually led to their decline, collapse or transformation into successor states.
A. Environmental damage
Persia:
caused by empires
Romans:
China:
India:
B. External problems along
frontiers/threats of invasion
Persia:
Romans:
China:
India:
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Chapter 3 - Big Questions (Short Answer Responses required)
1. What common features can you identify in the empires described in this chapter? In what ways do they
differ from one another? What accounts for those differences?
2. How do these empires of the second-wave of civilizations differ from the political systems of the First Early
River Valley Civilizations?
3. How did centralized governments, elaborate legal systems and bureaucracies help to organize their
subjects in these emerging ‘states’ and ‘empires’? Using diplomacy? Building fortifications, defensive walls,
and roads? Drawing new groups of military officers and soldiers from the local populations or conquered
people?
4. Hierarchies existed in these societies… put the following groups of people in order from low to high…
a. Artisans, merchants, laborers, cultivators, elites, slaves
5. What were some of the causes for the decline, collapse, and transformation into successor empires or states
for the following empires? Roman, Persian, Han, Mauryan and Gupta?
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Mapping Exercise: Locate, Outline, and Label the following key states or empires. (Use both maps provided)
1. Persian Empires
2. Qin and Han Empires
3. Maurya and Gupta
Empires
4. Phoenicia and its
colonies
5. Greek city-states
6. Hellenistic and Roman
Empires
7. Teotihuacan
8. Maya city-states
9. Moche
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