The Roman Empire and the Han dynasty both have created inventions that have inspired the modern world, and created impressive innovations and processes that advanced their primitive societies in the ancient world. Both civilizations worked tirelessly to create innovative solutions to the problems they had, or to advance their cities in a way they felt could not be replicated. Each city had their own view on how these inventions should be created and ran. The Romans created aqueducts and invented the arch, to be used in architecture to withstand heavy buildings, and a road system that connected the entirety of the Roman Empire. The Han created paper and compasses, spread further the trade of silk and the silk road, and inspired …show more content…
There is an abundant amount of water and Frontius takes pride in what he believes is the greatest and most useful invention in the Ancient world. (Doc 8) Frontius clearly takes on an air of great pleasure that the Aqueducts work so well, and accredits himself to their success partly because he is the water commissioner for the city of Rome. He develops an adverse attitude to other ‘great’ structures who do not seem to serve a purpose in his eyes. Each of these men are seeing firsthand the details that go into creating a vast system that controls water. The Han official is more humble than the Roman, but sees that there is still a hierarchy to the system.
Each ancient empire has their own acclaimed heroes and great innovators of their time. Fuxi is credited with creating the mortar and pestle and increasing the power of it by a ‘hundredfold’ Huan Tan speaks very highly of the old Emperor and praises his work. (Doc 3) The Han’s developed a prideful attitude when discussing their innovations. They discussed the refinements made up until the peak of the product, meant to show that they invest time and effort into their work to make it the best they can be. Meanwhile the Romans have a different view on how items are created. A roman philosopher Seneca details that he does not care what level of intelligence someone had when creating a certain product, and that he does not value the importance of how an object came to be,
There were two major similarities between the Roman Empire and Han Dynasty. Both the Roman Empire and Han Dynasty were great empires that had large land areas under their control. Han China and the Roman Empire put a lot of effort into building and expanding their territories. The Han Dynasty expanded their territory further Qin boundary and Romans wanted more territory for military uses. They manufactured streets that helped with trade and built new buildings, pipes, and
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
Both Rome and Han China equivalently constructed similar roads, bridges, and water development systems all to strengthen their economy. Verifications of this can be seen when Rome fully realized the potential of arches and bridges in their road systems that spanned more than 400,000 km of roads that were used for trade. Correspondingly, they also built aqueducts as a form of water engineering to constantly bring in a flow of water to the cities and towns. Similarly, Han China built massive fortified roadways for trade and walls for fortification comparable to the Great Wall of China as a means of defense. Also in comparison to Roman aqueducts, Han China built water canals as means to direct water as they pleased. These similarities defined their engineering skills as these inventions and constructions were used to help strengthen their economies. Rome built and constructed roads to aid their trade systems and make easier routes of travel. Furthermore, they used aqueducts to get water into the city saving money and the need for human labor. Similarly, Han China used their fortified roads to trade much easier and as a means of safer travel. This went hand in hand with China’s water canals that also aided their economy by directing water where needed saving much money and limiting the need for human labor as well.
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
Comparing the Roman aqueducts and the Hans, the Hans usually built water canals which they used to direct water as they wanted. These similarities showed that their engineering skills were similar in many ways as
After studying the provided documents (#1-8) its come to my understanding that both the Han and Roman empires thought of technology as useful and somewhat revolutionary, but both of them had somewhat different feelings of it. The Han dynasties attitude toward technology was that they thought it was very benefical, and they admired it. The reason this was because they though it to be very helpful in agriculture and construction purposes. Evidence of the positive effects of this can be seen in Document 4: History of the Early Han Dynasty which tells of a governer of Nanynay and as the very generous and loving person he was his policies also refelcted his personality. He had so much love for his people he wanted to lift weight of their
From the aqueducts of the Roman Empire to the pestle and mortar of Han, China, technology played a big role in ancient civilizations. From the 2nd century BCE through the 1st century CE, both the Han and Roman empires were dealing with the advancements in technology, whether the people liked it or not. There were many different approaches between the two empires, but there were also differences in views within the empires themselves. In the Roman Empire, people believed that technology unnecessary, but not rational, while other people believed it as a way to show how great the Roman Empire was. In the Han dynasty, some believed that technology was a vital part of an empire and needs government interference, while others saw it as an unnecessary and costly burden.
An upper-class Roman political leader spoke in document 5 about how working with your hands is vital, but Rome gets differentiated from Han China when leaders say that laboring workers are vulgar and that the creation of technology is not enlightened enough for “true gentlemen”. Additionally, document 7 consists of a philosopher not giving nearly as much praise to technology as the Han officials did. The philosopher believed that tools were again necessary, but people who work with their minds are more enlightened than those working with their
Rome and Han China where very advanced for their time period. One thing that Han China and Rome where pretty advanced in was architecture some examples are the aqueducts in Rome and the great wall of China in Han China. The purpose of the aqueducts in Rome were to get water from one place to another the aqueducts helped meet the basic needs in a lot of place that would otherwise not get enough water the aqueducts also helped farmers water their crops on a regular basis and that would mean that crops were more likely to live. Han China was also very advanced in architecture they were the dynasty that built the great wall of China they built the great wall of China at first to keep enemies out of their territory it kinda of acted as a border between them and
The Han and Roman empires thrived during the Classical Period, in which rose first great empires and a heavier influence of religion, due to increased trade and the spread of not only goods, but ideas and knowledge. The Han Empires’ attitude toward new technology was more positive than the Romans, whose motto is “gravitas” or seriousness towards all matters, which caused the Romans to have a more neutral, leaning towards negative attitude of technology.
They created an innovation that helped the empire get fresh water from clean springs to the city called the aqueducts. They are massive structures that transported the fresh water while keeping it pollution free to minimize disease spread through contaminated water. They also created underground sewage systems, fountains, and public baths for the people of the empire. The people of Rome used concrete to build government buildings, and religious places of worship that had never been built like that before. The Romans were responsible for making roads and highways that helped transport good for trade, which improved their economy.
The Romans also came up with a grand invention called aqueducts which was an early form of irrigation which led to them being able to pump fresh water and even used them for plumbing. Some other miscellaneous inventions include soap, shopping malls, spider web bandages, and a fun fact is that around 216 B.C they say there was an armada of ships flying around the sky of Italy. Some Greek inventions include water mills, odometers, a form of an alarm clock, cartography, the olympics, the basis of geometry, early medicinal practice, an discoveries in modern science still in use today. The Greeks actually were the first to use the concept of guiding ships with light, Greek mathematician and scientist Archytas invented a wooden pigeon that used compressed steam to function and was capable of flying 656 to 984 feet, they were the first to really shape the concept of citizen, the Greeks also invented a shower through a advanced pipe and pump citizens, and finally but not least the Greek also invented the lever. THe Romans actually found out how to make things like concrete, newspapers, a form of welfare, they found a way to bind books, they made roads ,the Julian calendar, and finally the romans invented the 12 tables, which is a
The ancient Romans were skilled engineers and have left lasting contributions in this field. The Romans built a great network of roads connecting cities throughout their empire. They also built aqueducts and bridges using arches for support. The Roman arch design was by far the most important innovation of their time. The arch, however, would have been useless without the discovery of concrete. The Romans had many other such discoveries that would make their engineering skills known throughout the world.
In universal history, the reign of the ancient Roman Empire is recognized as one of the most remarkable, powerful and dominating empires in time history. In the period of the High Empire, the emperor Trajan led the Roman dominance to a whole new level. For the first time, one single government controlled an area reaching from today’s Spain to the Tigris River and from England to the Nile Delta. The Romans set new benchmarks in art and architecture and developed a modern culture that surpassed the standard of the Ancient Greek Empire. The invention of concrete allowed Roman architects to built magnificent buildings that often functioned as a mean of propaganda and as status symbols of the unprecedented power of the Roman Empire. The Romans introduced two new revolutionary architectural construction forms to the
Well, Romans have made many changes to their work of building, some people even said it changed for the worse. the greatest thing the Romans did for a building was to use the arch. Assyrians invented the arch but barely used it because they didn't have much stone to build the arches. Romans also made barrel vaults and domes. Romans are very well known for their inventions because each one had a role in the building of the great city