Unit 3 Classical Empires Review

How did the Silk Roads transport unevenly geographical distributions such as silk from the Han Dynasty to the Roman Empire?

• The Silk Road connected South Asia, East Asia, and the Middle East.

• The Roman Empire was too far away for the two to interact directly

• via series of merchants who carried goods a short distance

What long-term cause led to the collapse of the Roman Empire?

• barbarian expansion

• financial problems

• pathogens

• overexpansion

Identify the empires that were connected with each other via the Silk Roads through a series of land trade routes.

• Mayan Civilization

• Han Dynasty

• Greece

• Persian Empire

• Roman Empire

Barbarian invasions, the plague, government corruption, high taxations, internal conflict, and external conflict, with nomadic tribes the ability to no longer defend its borders and the disruption of trade along the Silk Roads.

These negative affects led to the _____?

• Overexpansion

• The Collapse of the Classical Empires

• decrease in the volume of trade

• Rebellions

What type of government did the Mayan Civilizations and Classical Greece establish?

• Representative Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Monarchy

• City State

Which of the following identifies the effecst of overexpansion?

• Hinduism spread

• Nomadic neighboring tribes

• Collapse of the Classical Empires

• Christianity unified the Roman Empire

How did Buddhist missionaries spread their religion from India to China?

• series of trade routes on the Silk Roads

• the Roman Roads of the Roman Empire

• the Royal Roads of the Persian Empire

• the deserts of the Gupta Civilization

What are two similiarities between the Han Chinese and the Roman Empire?

• controlled territories using bureaucracies

• transported silk to the Middle East

• spread Buddhism from India to China

• expanded their territories through conquest

Identify another similiarity between the Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire.

• sacrificed their prisoners of war to the Sun God

• conquered nomadic tribes to expand their territories

• unequal distribution of natural resources

• use the trade routes to spread religion throughout their vast territory

Before the Roman Empire became an empire it established a ______________democracy and a separation of __________________.

• representative/powers

• republic/democracy

• Federalism/Voting

• Legislative/Senate