INDIA CHINA
1.
harmony & balance
MEDITERRANEAN
2.
polytheistic religion
3.
encouraged political virtue & civic involvement
4.
developed well-organized bureaucratic system
5.
seismometer
6.
permitted Buddhist monastics (monks & nuns)
7.
a republic
8.
most far-reaching sailors
9.
aristocratic assemblies
10.
application of the law held the civilization together
11.
social system regulated marriage, jobs, and dining
12.
highest-ranked in social hierarchy were religious scholars
13.
need for slaves encouraged expansion
14.
invaded by Huns, skilled nomadic horsemen
15.
government regulated grain trade
16.
12 Tables
17.
philosophy emphasized human reasoning
18.
epic poetry
19.
caste system
20.
government regulated a state religion
21.
divine right
22.
exported wild animals and animal products
23.
set precedents for future Western civilizations
24.
mandarins, laborers, and mean people
25.
conscripted labor
26.
government built public structures
27.
dramas
28.
provided welfare to the urban poor
29.
merchants held a high position in society
30.
large armies
31.
over-dependence upon slavery hindered agricultural technology advancements
32.
Middle East & North Africa was its
“breadbasket”
33.
latifundas with tenant farmers
34.
government positions held primarily by aristocratic landowners
35.
government supported religious tolerance
36.
patriarchal family structures
37.
interregional trade facilitated by the Great Silk
Road
38.
political regionalism
39.
“Arabic” numerals
40.
Buddhism was introduced here from its place of origin
41.
invaded by the Goths & Vandals
42.
harshest view of merchants
43.
olive oil & wine were primary luxury exports
44.
strongest centralized governments
45.
civil service tests
46.
free farmers became tenants or urbanized poor
47.
philosophy taught authoritarian governmental rule by force
48.
civilization held together largely by a common faith
49.
near-absence of slavery
50.
“Son of Heaven”
51.
meritocracy
52.
minority were wealthy
53.
sent Buddhist missionaries
54.
a reason for expansion was the capture of grain-growing regions
55.
Hellenistic support of scientific research
56.
followed “the Way”
57.
Sanskrit
58.
granted citizenship to conquered people
59.
a symptom of its decline was a falling population
60.
developed a collar for draft animals to aid plowing
61.
fundamental economic activity was agriculture
62.
cotton cloth exported
63.
government tolerated local political & religious diversity
64.
ancestor worship
65.
greater focus on obedience to the state
& good life on earth than on afterlife
66.
Buddhism lost strength here
67.
mystery religions had widespread appeal among the poor
68.
a faith that shapes believer’s religious & secular life
69.
ideographic script
70.
Christianity was unable to hold the civilization together