Chapter 4: Eurasian Empires

   The Persian Empire in the eats and the Greek civilization in the west eventually collided. The Greco-Persian Wars,

"Against all odds and all expectations the Greeks held them off defeating the Persians on both land and sea"

   Anyway, Greece was seen as Asia and despotism. Thus was the first notion of an East-West divide.

    The chapter goes on to compare the Roman and Chinese Empires and also the talks of an Intermittent Empire- The Case of India.




   My Quiz Questions are:

   1) How did the notion of the East-West divide form? 

   2) Explain some differences in the collapse of the Roman and Chinese Empires.

   3) What are some common features in all these Empires throughout Chapter 4?
  
   4) Do you think that the Classical Empires have lesson(s) we can learn from?