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The true name of the cult has been lost to the sands of time
The name is based of the name of a town where the ruins where first found
Very little is known about the cult other than it revoled around corn and how it expaned population in South America -
Polynnesian adventueres and expolores colonised the enterity of the south pasific ocean
They used catarrans bassic conoes to explore and expand
They had a cheifan system for a ruling class no major goverments -
The Olmecs scoecity was based in Mesoamerica
They had a city state culure based on a preist class and blood sacrifece
The olmec culuture deeply infuleced other cultures that came after it
The rubber ball game that the Maya are famous for started with the Olmec -
The Budda
The founder of Buddism
He was a prince who regected his kingdom for his morality -
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Created Satrapies
23 of them
Administrative districts.
Only leading ruler of Satrap had to be Persian -
Against Median overlord. Defeated Median Overlord less than 3 years later
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The founder of jainism
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Began in 455.
Vassal states recognized Cyrus as king -
Was defending Northern border from nomadic raiders.
Mortally wounded
Cyrus' body placed in simple tomb in Pasargadea
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Expelled or Executed all governers
Asserted their independence -
Started with Ionians Rebelling
Greeks sent aid to Ionians
Darius sends army to quell rebellion
Darius attacks Greek Peninusla
Forced back after Battle of Marathon
Xerxes sends another force, but it's repelled
Sparred intermitently for an extended period of time -
Victory by Greeks
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After his father is killed xerxes leads a force into greece to end he war
He later withdraws and it is consited a greek victory -
Naval battle around salamis island
Greek victory -
Greek philsopher who expessed the ideas of exsamination and a strive to be a moral person
He commited to death by the citizens of atheans for corruptin the youth -
Pericles was the leader of Atheans in its golden days
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A greek philospher
questioned reality through his use of Platos cave a though experiment
Student of Socrates and teacher to Aristotle -
destorys Persia
gets to india and invades
his death Divides the empire into three. -
Attacks with 48,000 Macedonian warriors
Eventually destroys Persepolis, and claims Persian Empire for himself -
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Had best area given from Alexander
Containeed most of Former Achaemenid empire
Attracted Greek colonists to fill new cities
Faced opposition from Native Persians
Destroyed by Romans -
According to tradition founded by Laozi
Strived to do nothing
Less government is better
Counterbalanced Confucianism -
The three wars between rome and carthage that determined who would rule the Medditerrian
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Ashoka expanaded the Mauryan empire to the greatest hight
Expaned buddism by making it the offical religion
after his death the empire fell into regional states -
Controled Iran and Mesopotamia
Retained Culture of Nomadic people
Didn't have a centralized government
Made larger, stronger horses to assist in repelling invaders
Conflicted with Rome multiple times
Eventually destroyed by internal rebellion -
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Solved PoWS
Channeled everyone into cultivation or military service
Strict legal regimen, harsh punishments -
Kush became a major empire in northern India
and played a major part in the silk empire -
The savior of the christian religon
His ideas shape europe and by exrtention the world for two milleania -
Expaned Christianity by writing letters and traveling around the Eastern part of the Roman Empire
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Usurped from Han Dynasty
Instituded Socialist reforms
Uprising ended his life -
the han dyansty after Wang Mang weak compared to the earleir dynasty
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The temple was lost and ransacked
The Coloseaum was built by Jewish slavea and the funds from the Temple -
The most famous Kshan emperor he expaned kush into the empire that encompased northen India and Pakistan.
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Began by toppleing the Parthians
Traded with people in East and West
Created Buffer states between them and the Romans
Got into border arguments with Rome Byzantium and Kush, but no one nation was strong enough to topple another
Arabs killed last emporer and incorperated it into their realm. -
The Maya were a Mesoamerica tribe which had a complex scoiety based on city states
Maya glyphs writing has only been rediscoverin the last fity years
Mayan religon was based on blood and corn, the gods had water the earth with their own blood and the Maya repaided them with the sacifice of their rulers blood -
The edict that legalised Christianity in the Roman empire
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The first chrisian emperor
Founded Constantinople
Csme up the idea of divine right -
The Gupta empire was Indias second attempt for a centeralised goverment.
Became a alliance between diffrent regions
Was destoryed by the white huns and disigrated back into regonal kingdoms -
The Council at constantiople which determined what chirstian theology was right.
They determined that Christ was a human and God at the same Time -
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Expands Empire East and West.
Administrated the largest empire the world had yet seen.
Centralized government -
Capital of Achaemenid Empire
Built by Darius
Served as nerve center for Achaemenid empire
Massive Ruins here today -
Didn't abolish Laws of individual areas, or peoples
Just brought them to a closer uniform standard -
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Led by Mithradates I
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The last Roman king the tarquin is killed
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Julius Ceasar killes his fellow tribunal members and becomes the Dictator of Rome
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On the ides of march Julius Ceasar was assinated by senators wishing to bring back the Roman Republic
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China is broken into kingdoms while the imperal goverment becomes a letter head
The three Great eastern Philosphys emerge in this time period -
Confucius
Came from aristocratic family
Tried to find influential role in one of the many warring states.
Never found one
Diciples found Confucianism
Compiled in the Analects
Didn't deal with anything that couldn't help during the PoWS
Wanted to create people of extraordinary contience and education -
Destroyed all other states during PoWS, claimed self emporer
Created Stability
Upon Emperor's death dynasty disolved -
Liu Bang centralized rule almost imeadiatly
Centralized and Decentralized rule -
Originaly a provenicance in the Persian empire it was concoured by Alexander and after his death later became its own kingdom was concoured by the white huns which in turn destroyed the Gupta empire
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Chandragupta Mauarya was the founder of the Mauryan empire and started an empire that would last for a few generations
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Founded by Chandragupta Maurya
lasted three generations
Ended by Ashoka's death and a top heavy govermentaly system -
After the fall of the Pelponnesian leauge a defensive pact agaist the Persians sparta lead the leauge into a war with Atheans
Sparta wins and conquers Atheans -
Rome falls apart due to the arstocrasyty owning much of the land and the majority of the population of rome jobless.
Generals try to seise power and control of the empire -
After Ceasars death agustus formed the second triumvirate which degenerated into a blood bath which Augustus won and then he went on to defet then rebels and so he started the Roman empire
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The undisputed rulers of Europe and the Medditarranian in the classical era
The most formitsable army in eurasia in the Classical era -
Rome transfers from a monacrhy to a repblic
the Repblic fopunds the base of the American Democarcy
leads to the creation of the Roman empire