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    Key Concept 2.2 The Development of States and Empires - AP Worldipedia
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    1. LHernandez25 11 Sep 2020
      Compounding this political weakness and peasant unrest was the effect of several devastating epidemics that wiped out nearly half the population. The death of so many peasants diminished grain production and reduced the tax base for the government, just as the government needed resources to deal with the invading Huns. With all this internal turmoil, the weakened Han dynasty could not fend off the advance of the Hun invaders who easily crossed the abandoned Great Wall. The Han fell in 220 C.E. and China temporarily fell into a period of disunity.

      The Han Empire fell because of political corruption by higher class citizens, resentment from the lower class, revolts from the Daoist Yellow Turbans, death from epidemics brought from trade, decrease in tax revenue and The Hun invasions

    2. LHernandez25 11 Sep 2020
      . Some slavery was practiced in all classical civilizations, but the Mediterranean world clearly exceeded Asia in the development of this institution.

      Buddhism did not allow slavery, the other early belief systems had no real stand points on slavery other than it was present. The most slavery was used in the Roman Empire and the Greek city-states

    3. LHernandez25 11 Sep 2020
      Gupta did not do this,[6] perhaps because as a decentralized state it was less able to garner resources for the collective good.

      Were not able to because there is no one person or place for the food to go. Instead local regions fended for themselves

    4. LHernandez25 11 Sep 2020
      Ashoka today is remembered as one of ancient India's most influential and benevolent leaders.

      Ashoka was like Cyrus the Great on the sense that he was a good ruler NOT in the sense that he allowed conquered land to retain their figures, that was the Gupta empire

    5. LHernandez25 11 Sep 2020
      Rome's greatest legacy was its system of law through which they forged a way to incorporate diverse cultures into a single political state without stripping localities of their individual identities.

      Specific laws for specific societies

    6. LHernandez25 11 Sep 2020
      Under Mauryan rule much of the Indian subcontinent was united for the first time under one central government.

      Before Mauryan rule the inhabitants of India were many different small kingdoms, tribes, and Aryan settlements, which had hinduism and caste system

    8. LHernandez25 10 Sep 2020
      Although decentralized governments put people more in touch with the powers that govern them, they often find it difficult to unite for the common good in times of crises

      Spartan uprising in Greece

    10. LHernandez25 10 Sep 2020
      Governments had to implement methods to project power over large areas, something that presented a challenge in the age before modern transportation and communication

      Governing power weakened as distance from central government hub (capital in most cases) increased. Darius the I in the Achaemenid Empire was able to solve this problem by dividing the land into Satrapies (local governments) and creating a group of spies to send into these satrapies to ensure no uprisings were being planned

    11. LHernandez25 10 Sep 2020
      Persian Empire is even more complex as it went through several permutations. The first Persian Empire was the Achaemenid Empire

      Cyrus the Great was a tolerant ruler and because of it the people were more inclined to follow him, which is why the Achaemenid Empire was strong until Xerxes and Darius the III provoked Alexander The Great

    12. LHernandez25 10 Sep 2020
      As empires acquired massive wealth, the unequal distribution of this wealth across social classes placed enormous pressure on the political and social order

      Could cause citizens to revolt or relocate

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