WHAP Unit 2 Study Guide
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Describe the political organization of Persia.
What was unique about the political life in Greece?
What were the reforms of Solon?
Contrast the political structure of Persia with Greece.
What major development occurred during the Hellenistic Era due to Alexanders conquest?
Compare the Roman and Chinese emperors.
How were the Persian Empire and Mauryan dynasty similar in their political administration?
Which foreign religious tradition was absorbed into China during the classical period?
Describe the Persian policy towards people with different cultural traditions who lived
within the empire.
[Link] what way was a value of the Roman Republic, idealized as the way of the ancestors
shown in politics there?
[Link] or give examples of the centralization of the Chinese state under Qin Shihuangdi.
[Link] empires represent a period during which most of the South Asian subcontinent was
unified under a single imperial state?
[Link] conquests of which leader led to the widespread dissemination of Greek culture during
the Hellenistic era?
[Link] leadership in which event launched Athens on a path to establish its dominance
over other city-states in the region?
[Link] Greek city-state was a democracy?
[Link] ruler during the classical era espoused a philosophical view on government that
was religiously inspired?
[Link] of the classical religions and philosophies focused more on affairs of this world than
on the realm of the divine and its relationship to human life?
[Link] are Buddhism and Hinduism similar?
[Link] system of thought provided inspiration for the harsh reunification of China under
Qin Shihuangdi?
[Link] do Daoists believe?
[Link] are Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam similar?
[Link] cultural tradition is particularly noted for its emphasis on logic and relentless
questioning of received wisdom, without giving much role to the gods?
[Link] cosmic struggle between Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu lies at the heart of which
religion?
[Link] did Confucianism affect Chinese society?
[Link] is the sacred text of Hinduism?
[Link] is the central feature of the Hindu notion of karma?
[Link] element of Hinduism did Buddhism reject?
[Link] are Theravada and Mahayana versions of Buddhism different?
[Link] are Confucianism and Greek philosophy/rationalism similar?
[Link] are Confucius, Zarathustra, and Siddhartha Gautama similar?
[Link] are Buddhism and Christianity similar?
[Link] did Christianity change in the first 500 years since its emergence?
[Link], Plato and Aristotle were associated with which belief system?
[Link] school of thought contended that the best way to govern was to lead the people by
virtue and the rules of propriety?
[Link] did Jesus and Socrates have in common?
[Link] the teachings of Jesus.
[Link] has been put forward by scholars as a possible factor in the emergence of slavery
within the First Civilizations?
[Link] was Indias social structure different from that of China?
[Link] do we call the social structure of male dominance in society that has continued since
the First Civilizations?
[Link] were the social structures of India and China similar?
[Link] which classical era empire did slaves comprise more than one-third of the total
population?
[Link] which of the societies did women enjoy the fewest restrictions?
[Link] philosophical or religious tradition provided a unifying ideology for peasant
rebellions in China?
[Link] the status of women in classical civilizations.
[Link] the social status of women in Athens to women in Sparta.
[Link] which classical civilization was slaveholding the least widespread and least central to
the economy?
[Link] worlds first and longest lasting professional civil service emerged in which classical
civilization?
[Link] were honored and merchants were looked down upon in the official ideology of
____________.
[Link] group was at the top of the caste system in India?
[Link] combination of natural disasters, high taxes and rents, and state demands for labor
and military service often sparked peasant rebellions in __________.
[Link] in a jati was based on a persons __________________.
[Link] religious beliefs supported the inequalities of the caste system?
[Link] was a major source of slaves in the Roman Empire?
[Link] was the idea of patriarchy similar throughout the classical civilizations?
[Link] what ways were the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Han China and the Spartacus Rebellion in
the Roman Empire similar?
[Link] were the factors contributing to the collapse of the Maya civilization in the ninth
century C. E.?
[Link] language was spoken by the groups of people who had spread throughout most of
southern and eastern Africa by the classical era?
[Link] why cities in the Niger Valley civilization different from cities in other civilizations?
[Link] was the advantage Bantu-speaking farmers had in their encounters with gathering
and hunting groups?
[Link] were the Maya and Axum similar?
[Link] the classical era, metallurgy was least developed in ____________________.
[Link] their political organization, the Maya were most like which other classical civilization?
[Link] were the cultures in the Chaco canyon region and the Mississippi River valley similar?
[Link] the civilization of the Andes region.
[Link] attributed to both the decline of the Meroe and the rise of Axum?
[Link] in Axum most closely identified with which church?
[Link] the relationship between the civilizations in Mesoamerica and those in the Andes.
[Link] evidence suggests that the village located at Chavin was the center for
____________________.
[Link] are the mound-building cultures of the eastern woodlands considered semisedentary?
[Link] society of which group of people is considered to be less patriarchal due to its system
of gender parallelism which associated female roles with village life and male roles with
hunting and forest life?
