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(Latin for "Roman peace") was the long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. Since it was established by Augustus, it is sometimes called Pax Augusta.
A central event in Christianity and the crucifix is the main religious symbol for many churches.
Refers collectively to the various schools of Buddhism that have flourished in China since ancient Buddhism has played an enormous role in shaping the mindset of the Chinese people, affecting their aesthetics, politics, literature, philosophy and medicine.
A pre-Inca culture that flourished on the coast of Peru in the 1st to 7th centuries AD.
Emperor Wu of Han, also translated Han Wudi, born Liu Che, was the seventh emperor of the Han dynasty of China.
The end of Pax Romana came after the death of Marcus Aurelius, who was considered as among the great emperors of Rome. After his death, resulted to chaos in the empire due to the megalomaniac tendencies of his son and successor Commodus. The misrule of Commodus resulted to the destabilization of the empire, which eventually led to the assassination of Commodus.
China's first imperial dynasty was the Qin dynasty. The Qin unified the Chinese Warring States by conquest, but their empire became unstable after the death of the first emperor Qin Shi Huangdi.
A member of a warlike Asiatic nomadic people who ravaged Europe in the 4th–5th centuries. Attacked Chinas Great Wall.
The first unified, multi-national and power-centralized state in the Chinese history. It lasted from 221 BC to 207 BC. Although surviving only 15 years, the dynasty held an important role in Chinese history and it exerted great influence on the following dynasties.
The Edict of Milan refers to the February 313 agreement to treat Christians benevolently within the Roman Empire. Western Roman Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius, who controlled the Balkans, met in Milan and among other things, agreed to change policies towards Christians.
The Gupta Empire was an ancient Indian empire, founded by Maharaja Sri Gupta, which existed from approximately 320 to 550 CE and covered much of the Indian Subcontinent.
A dynasty that united most of the Indian subcontinent and presided over a great flowering of Indian civilization.
A period in history defined as the time between the death of Alexander the Great and the rise of Roman domination.
King of Macedonia, conqueror of Greek city-states and of the Persian empire from Asia Minor and Egypt to India.
The Huns invaded the Germanic area and they had to move to other places
King of the Huns; the most successful barbarian invader of the Roman Empire
Very influential, many brilliant people bringing new ways of thinking Pericles: arguably the most prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age— specifically the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. Socrates: Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers
A series of six historical books written by Edward Gibbon, which tell the story of the Roman Empire from the 1st century AD to the 15th century.
The Roman Republic was the period of the ancient Roman civilization when the government operated as a republic.
Byzantine emperor known for the codification of Roman law
The White Huns also invaded India and succeeded in extending their domain to include the Ganges valley. They temporarily overthrew the Gupta empire but were eventually driven out of India in 528 by a Hindu coalition. Although in Persia they had little effect, in India the White Huns influenced society by altering the caste system and disrupting the hierarchy of the ruling families. Some of the White Huns remained in India as a distinct group.
Leaders of Confucianism and Daoism
Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni, or simply the Buddha, was a sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. Born in the Shakya republic in the Himalayan foothills, Gautama Buddha taught primarily in northeastern India.
A short-lived Imperial Chinese dynasty. Preceded by the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it unified China for the first time after over a century of north-south division. It was followed by the Tang dynasty.
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