Okay... many of you have learned that you must download the Unit Study Guide now and begin to work on it. Use the study guide to help you extract information from class discussions as well as your reading assignments. Furthermore, we have learned that you can not trust everything on the social networks. Make sure you check the answers so you don't get your answers wrong. When you use your study guide, think SPRITE, Change over TIme and Comparisons!!!
EXAMPLE:
Julius Caesar: Socially/Economically reformed Rome through land reform, gave colonial acquisitions to plebes, allowed plebes to have patrician jobs, tried to close gap b/w rich & poor, public works programs; Politically allowed plebes into Senate and Consul, increased Senate to 900, dictator, changed rules for dictatorship for 10 yrs then life (oopsJ); alliance with Cleo, why- trading rights, cotton, power; general, governor, Gallic Wars, popularity with plebes (could equate with them; he was a poor patrician), triumvirate; Rubicon- point of no return; defeat Pompey; Senate dislikes Caesar b/c slowly taking away power; centralizing power under one ruler; changing the republic to an autocracy? tyranny?
Ashoka: Mauryan dynasty; x of Kalinga; expands empire to Bay of Bengal; used parts of Arthrashastra and spies; converts to Buddhism; pillars; roads; edicts reflect Buddhism/ Eight Fold Path; uses Buddhism as a political tool; advocates trade; centralized govt; used bureaucrats; centralized government; bureaucrats...
Wudi: Han dynasty; compared with Chandra Gupta II, Augustus, Darius I; public works projects; Confucianism; Bureaucracy; monarchy, autocracy, expansionism to Korea; hegemony; Xiongnu enemy, try to bribe them, didn’t work so allied with Central Asia steppe nomads to deal with Xiongnu, enemy of my enemy is my friend, secures borders and Silk Trade Road; Zhang Qian embassador to Uzbeks to deal with Xiongnu; not trusting of merchants; inventions; expenditures; peasant uprisings from taxes…
