Transcript Chapter 5! An Age of Empires: Rome and Han China

Chapter 5!
An Age of Empires: Rome and
Han China
753 B.C.E. – 600 C.E.
The Roman Empire
The Roman Empire came to encompass all the lands surrounding the
Mediterranean Sea, as well as parts of continental Europe.
Augustus
He was the fist Emperor of Rome.
And he was ruthless, patience, and had a intuitive grasp of
psychology.
Aqueducts
Long elevated or underground conduits-carried water from source to an
urban center, using only the force of gravity.
Corpus Juris Civilis
Begin to be studied in western Europe under the influence of a legal
scholar named Irnerius (ca. 1055-ca. 1130), whose establishments of legal
studies at the University of Bologna in Italy laid foundation for most
modern European legal systems.
Han China
A series of walls in the north and northwest, built to check the
incursions of nomadic peoples from the steppes, were joined together
to form the ancestor of the present day Great Wall of China.
Chang’an
the imperial capital of 13 different historical dynasties (including the
Han and Tang dynasties) in China.
Stone Rubbing
Its produced by mining salt into a stone.