Compare And Contrast Han And Roman Attitude Towards Technology

Han Dynasty and Roman Empire have many cultural aspects including religious, geographical, and political similarities that can be compared, though many differences are also widespread during this era. Though Roman and Han political structures, both emphasized bureaucracies, they came to them quite differently. Through many amounts of expansion, both societies spread culture and earned money, though expansion was eventually their downfall. Their religions differed greatly, with Rome, emphasizing polytheism and Han China focusing on Confucianism. The differences and similarities between these two civilizations are to be discussed in this essay. One might ask, Which civilization yielded the best

Though they were both able to trade due to their expansions and coasts, Rome did much more trade than Han China. Also, due to this vastness, both societies’ cultures were spread all over the world (which led to other civilizations forming) and their economies were boosted (which led to better conditions for the people).

The Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire were two grand empires that rose out of preexisting territories and provided relative peace over wide areas. The collapse of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BCE), which was the first great land-based empire in East Asia, came after a period of war, confusion, and tyrannical rule. Due to the political disorder that stemmed from the early dynastic activity, the emergence of the Han Dynasty (206 BCE- 228 CE) sprung to focus on restoring order. On the other hand, the rise of the Roman Empire (44 BCE- 476 CE) originated from consolidating authority over aristocratic landlords and overriding the democratic elements of the earlier Republic. Instead, the Roman Empire redefined the concept of “citizen” as subjects to

Empires on their outside may seem very different and unique. However, when you get down to their fundamentals, you begin to truly realize how similar they are. Just as the imposing pine tree and humble tomato plant may seem vastly different, their start from a lowly seed and craving for water and sunlight to survive unifies them. Such is also true with the Han and Roman empires. While key differences may be present, their social structures, influencing religions, and causes of collapse unify them.

The Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire vary in their political development and achievements. The Roman’s developed two different codes of law, one that applied to citizens and another that applied to non-citizens. Rome’s trade routes were built using stone, which made it very easy for merchants to travel from one city to another over a vast amount of land. China, however, used a single code of law for all their citizens and conquered peoples, and used a long and treacherous trail in their trade; that lead to the Middle East. Even though these two civilizations held many differences, they also shared rulers who personally oversaw their governments to prevent numerous dilemmas and used expansive trade routes to build up their economies and

Although Han China and Rome shared similarities in their techniques of imperial administration though military conquest and engineering’s aid toward the economy, they differed in their approach to land distribution.

The Han and Roman Empires are very important. They have greatly influenced the past, and many other societies worldwide. The Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire have different outlooks on technology, the Han Dynasty view technology as a practical application used to ease the workload of people, while the Roman Empire views certain technology as needed, despite the creator. If not for the technology and the technological views of the Han and Roman Empires, the world would be a much

Han dynasty emerged into power back in 221BCE after the fall of Qin dynasty 206BCE. They were the original pioneers when it comes to political systems and structure of the society that lasted more than 2000 years in China. On the other hand, the Roman Empire controlled the western Mediterranean and they had various advancements in technology and science. The Romans had different engineering accomplishments considered to be different from those of the Han kingdom. They formed the basis of the establishment of the western legal codes. This research is aimed towards analysis the similarities and the differences between the Han dynasty and the Roman Empire. The consequences of their differences are also analyzed in this research.

Both the Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire became massive empires and dominated their region for a long time. In addition, both of these empires also had large impact on the world and extremely influenced the development of human civilization. Even in the modern times, the Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire have been the major subjects of historians and scholars especially when dealing with the development of stable societies . Although both of these empires grew in massive size, their political, economic, social and religious developments are extremely different. The objective of this paper is to analyze and compare the Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire in terms of political, economic, social and religious developments. It also opts to evaluate their overall impact to their

The Han dynasty was a golden era for China. It saw the greatest land confiscation of the nation’s history and economic success. In this paper I will be focusing on the structure of the national government, the monopolizing of iron and salt, the Yumen Pass and the Yellow Turban rebellion. Join me as we take a trip back in time to visit a time in Chinas history that is highly revered.

Where Europe was a muddle of minor, dispersed and extremely competitive feudal plots, ultimately amalgamating into still more nation-states, China during the “Ming Period” (14th –17th centuries) was a vast, stable, integrated empire, challenged only occasionally by the Mongols and Huns. No later than 11th century, the Chinese had already invented numerous significant technologies such as the printing press and gunpowder. Yet, after the 15th century, all that ingenuity and creativeness seems to have dissipated. The creative decline is attributed to a Confucian mindset that praised conformity and absolute allegiance to the state. Europeans in contrast, with the aid of common written languages, were able to surpass them in both technological inventions and in economics, as result of the introduction of capitalism. The form of competition also includes the many benefits resulting from the introduction of new weapons of war. Curiously, Ferguson chooses to include military innovation as a benefit of competition and not science, yet few with any kind of moral compass would be comfortable with war providing any benefit to society at all. It is the peaceable nature of China’s Confucian society that avoids war that is preferable to one based on militarism to many. In addition, the demarcation point between science and technology is clearly

During the Han and Roman civilizations many new developments of useful technology took place, at the hands of thousands of people. The Romans built brilliant new technologies such as their aqueducts and the creation of concrete which helped build better, stronger structures. The Han also had technologies they developed to help their society, such as their agricultural advancements with farming tools and the using the ox. Attitudes towards the technology at the time for each civilization caused pride and encompassed order to accumulate success, but the Han viewed workers more equally than the Romans did in the making of these magnificent advances.

Throughout Eurasia, in the time period of 200 BCE-200 CE, both the Roman and Han dynasty were flourishing empires; that participated in the expansion of commerce, specifically through the Silk Road, production, and developing new technologies. (context). Although both empires were emerging from previous states, their attitudes of technology differ from each other and themselves. In the Han dynasty, they had many technological advances through the work of their people,and common people were making technological advancements out of need, for more efficiency; therefore, the chinese were more acceptant of this creators (although poor). The elite Romans had a different view, they thought these common people were low and crude.

Many great empires emerged from 600 BCE to 600 CE. Of these many empires were the Roman Empire and Han Dynasty. These great empires needed many things to prosper and one of those things was technology. Technology allowed these empires to expand and accomplish many feats throughout their time. This all influenced their attitude toward technology. The Han dynasty had a very positive attitude towards technology and wanted it for the benefit of the common man, whereas the Roman empire somewhat neglected technology and saw it as no benefit.

Throughout the history of Eurasia, the idea and development of technology prospered and directly affected many governments. Due to the expansion of empires, many problems arose, which proved to be difficult to societies. To combat these difficulties, governments turned towards technology to help develop their civilization. Significantly, from the second century BCE to the second century CE, Han and Roman technology improved and developed drastically. The use of newfound technology allowed the governments to build bigger projects, which rapidly broadened the societies and economies. Notably, the Han dynasty’s attitude was more positive towards technology than the Roman empire due to the fact that they were proud of their accomplishments and expressed the necessity for more, while most Romans viewed the development of technology as a crude job for the unrefined due to the organized social structure.