Classical Era Test Review- Unit 2
1. Explain what the Silk Road is and its impact on trade.
2. How did Qin Shihuangdi unify the Chinese?
3. Name the technological advances of the Han dynasty.
4. Explain Daoism, legalism and Confucian views.
5. The central bureaucracy of the Qin dynasty was divided into
6. The invention that led to major expansion of trade in the Han period was
7. According to Plato, individuals could not achieve a good life unless
8. Describe the conquests of Alexander the Great.
9. The astronomer Eratosthenes determined that
10. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey were
11. At Thermopylae Pass, the Spartan troops
12. Be able to describe and explain the Roman Government
13. Pax Romana means a period of what
14. When the poet Juvenal said, “There’s only two things that concern them: Bread and Circuses,” he was talking about
15. Believing the Roman Empire had grown too large for a single ruler, Diocletian
16. The Roman emperor kept the poverty-stricken masses pacified by
17. The paterfamilias, or dominant male, was the head of the Roman family and could do what?
18. Constantine became the Roman Empire’s first what?
19. Know these terms and Names Cleisthenes, Socrates, acropolis, Mount Olympus, Qin Shihuangdi, Dao, and censorate.
20. Describe the ways in which the two elements of duty and humanity were expressed in the Confucian view of the Dao.
21. What are the basic beliefs of Legalism?
22. Describe the growth of democracy in Athens.
23. Describe the characteristics of a “Spartan” life style.
24. Explain why Christianity was able to attract so many followers.
25. Explain Rome’s success in gaining control of the entire Italian peninsula.
26. Describe how attitudes toward women changed over the course of Roman history.
27. What are the main influences that the Roman Law of Nations had on American criminal law?
28. Compare the social & economic issues and the decline of the Roman Empire with those of the Han Dynasty of China.