Alliance System Vs Devshirme System

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for the Samurai. For the knights it included learning how to ride a horse and being sent to serve as a page to his father’s overlord or to a powerful relative.

China during the classical period, a span of time stretching from 1000 B.C.E.-500 C.E., was ruled by many families, each having their own dynasty. The very first dynasty of this period was the Zhou, coming into power after overthrowing the Shang. The last Shang emperor, Di Xin, had essentially abandoned matters of the state in favor of hedonistic activities, using tax money to fund them and therefore becoming very unpopular. This caused the Zhou uprising which led to the establishment of the Mandate of Heaven, a concept that not only allowed the Zhou to gain and maintain cultural power of the Chinese people, but led to widespread notions in Chinese society of the validity of autocracy and a need for extremely centralized government that would

Dynasties after that would rule by saying the previous dynasty lost their mandate. (Ch. 5 pg. 93) Finally, the Han Dynasty introduced the first bureaucracy system, in which the central government appointed representatives in the district. (Ch. 8 pg. 159)

This was a method of political control because of the ability and power of a single leader to quickly squash rebellion and dissent. In the case of Rome, Generals often had armies more loyal to a leader than to the state. This led to a constant struggle for power that nearly destroyed the empire. Octavius, a relative of Julius Caesar, officially established a military dictatorship that would last until the transition of the Roman empire to the Byzantine empire. In the Han dynasty, or the series of monarchs of the same extended family, monarchs had absolute control and there was much vying and contest between families to get the person on the throne that would do the most good for their family.

Also, rather than organize in units of ten, “Conscription and Professional Soldiers in Song China” shows that China’s army of the time was instead organized into two separate

The caste system was often used to maintain order and provided guidance for the citizen’s role in society. It also adapted to the newly arrived migrants like Turks, and Muslim merchants and established codes for behavioral to others and those in the same class. However, as merchants and manufacturers became influential in the economic state, powerful guilds grouped themselves by working within the caste system, and established themselves as jatis (“sub-castes”), specializing themselves in different types of commerce like silk, cotton, spice trade production. Although, Hinduism was embraced in southeastern area of Asia, ruling elites in Southeast Asia showed no interest in the social class of

Even though the Qin dynasty was seen as barbaric and brutal, the Han did implement some of the old Qin institutions into their new government. One of these institutions were the Commanderies. These were administrative divisions of land in which a governor would be appointed by the government and run it as the government or emperor wants it to be ran. This is institution is very useful for knowing how many people you have. When war comes and you need to draft able bodied men to go fight, you will know just how many you will be able to get. Another reason would be for tax purposes. It is also very useful to regulate the trade and growing of certain crops. Even more in depth than that the government can control what the children in the commanderies are taught and what propaganda they are seeing. Qin law is another thing that the Han used from the former dynasty. One example of this practice was the fact that women could bring up cases against men even though the women did not have the same rights as men. Punishments were also

The Janissary corps was a strict system that forbid the janissaries from growing a beard, having another career like trade, drinking or gambling, and marrying before retirement. This was so they’d be focused entirely on the sultan. Punisment in result from rule-breaking varied from kitchen duty, or the most common type of punisment where a soldier would be beated on his feet by a falaka, a supple wand. Desertion in time of war resulted in execution. Even though the system was strict, the Janissaries were paid a salary, were the first to wear uniforms, marched to a mether band, and lived in barracks.

Amid the ancient and medieval age, we see that a leader or a group played the important role as the leader of a chain. When comparing and contrasting the way a king’s or group’s role is played in the ancient age and medieval age, we find differences, particularly when it comes to how they rule the kingdom. But we also find similarities in the way they treated their community and the power they hold. Thus, the king or group was considered the most important voice that brought about change in laws, social order, and government.

Before the Qin Dynasty, China was composed of a network of city states that were loyal to the Chinese king. The seven Warring States had their own institutions that were run by aristocrats. The Qin Dynasty took initiative to expand their territory and to unite the Chinese empire together. Through their ruthless military techniques the Qin Dynasty was able to conquer the city states in China. The Qin Dynasty ruled from 221 BCE – 206 BCE; during their regime, Emperor Qin’s primary goal was to unify the Chinese people. Even though the Qin Dynasty was a short-lived empire, it played a major role in unifying the Chinese empire and provided a foundation for succeeding regimes through a centralized government, standardized systems, and through infrastructure.

Supported by their military power, they kept up virtual regional self-rule over the areas under their control. Their numbers differed enormously, from a modest group of men to furnished army of a few hundred thousand in number. Numerous powerful groups emerged and commanded attention as they battled for national power symbolized in the Beijing government.

they were attached to the centre of power, because they influenced the king more than

Subsequent to the unification, the laws and punishments were harsh due to the different ruling in each of the 7 warring states. Qin Shi Huangdi the first emperor of the Qin dynasty was a dictator, thus, people were discontent. As a result, there were assassination attempts that attributed in his phobia of death and foreigners were banned from the area. To reduce the chances of a rebellion amongst the people, books were burnt restricting their knowledge on other philosophies and “to silence criticism of imperial rule, the kings banished or put to death many dissenting Confucian scholars” (HELLO). Since they did not have free will, the citizens were constantly in fear, this held the empire together, instead of breaking apart into different ruling systems. The Han dynasty also resembles this trait of isolation as expansion did not start immediately.The dynasty had to establish rules and a proper government to rule the people. At the start it was quite successful but there were a few disputes and an attempt to change the royal bloodline. Only when emperor Wudi took throne did expansion move forward. Due to his persistence, he built up their army and defeated the Huns in spite of previous attempts to avoid battles with people outside of China. However, militarism was expensive, causing the taxes to rise and the contentedness of the people to

This practice is demonstrated by the emergence of the Yani Cheri ("New Troops") (aka Janissaries). These troops came about by taking young Christian boys and converting them to Islam while making them completely loyal to the Sultan. The parents could avoid taxes by giving their sons over under the devshirme ('child-taking"). This gave a set of crack troops that became the dominant military force in the Asia Minor region and protected