HIST 122
Spring 2014
Dr. Hutton
NVC
Weekly Assignment #6
Due: Thurs., 4/10
Read Tignor, Chap. 7, pp. 241-277, (2nd ed., pp. 275-318) & answer these questions:
1. What factors made Han dynasty China and the Roman Empire different from earlier
large states?
2. What adminstrative measures did the Qin emperor take to control China? What was
guiding ideology of the Qin emperor?
3. How did the Qin attempt to defend China against the Xiongnu?
4. What ideology did the Han emperors adopt? How did the first Han emperor Liu
Bang use the unpopularity of the Qin dynasty to promote his own rule?
5. How were Han officials chosen?
6. How did the Han deal with the Xiongnu threat and how did they establish peace?
7. How did Wang Mang take advantage of the Mandate of Heaven idea and how did his
enemies turn that idea against him?
8. How did the Han dynasty fall? What replaced it?
9. What policies made the Roman military machine difficult to defeat?
10. Who was Julius Caesar?
11. How did success in conquest throw the Roman republic into crisis?
12. Who created the Roman Empire? How did he change the government of Rome?
13. What problems did the Roman emperors have in trying to keep control over the huge
empire?
14. Why were towns so important to the Roman Empire? What did the Romans build in
their towns?
15. Why did the Romans build structures for public mass entertainment?
16. What did patrons do for their clients? What did patrons do for the cities they lived
in?
17. What authority did the father of the family have? What was the status of women?
18. What happened to the scale of economic production under the Romans? Why? What
was the basis of their economy?
19. How did the rise of Christianity cause some people to question the beliefs of the
Roman Empire?
20. Who were the Roman Empire’s neighbors and sometimes enemies on its frontiers?
Map 2 Locations: Label Map 2 (on the course website) with these locations. We will
review the maps on Thursday, 4/10. These locations will be on the final exam.
Jerusalem
Delhi (New Delhi)
Somalia
Caspian Sea
Taklamakan Desert
Kiev
Mecca
Great Zimbabwe (1000 CE)
Tiahuanaco
Palenque
Tenochtitlán
Sumatra
Timbuktu, Mali
Guangzhou
Rome
Constantinople
Korea
Baghdad
Seville
Prague
London
Paris