Women of Ancient Rome & China

The legal systems between the two empires differed. Rome had an adversarial system, where the judge is neutral, while in China, the prosecutor and judge were normally the same person. The Roman society was essentially relationships that were governed by laws and courts. The Roman law had a large presence in all affairs of the cities. The basis of the Roman society, as it was stated in the laws, is that the head of the family is the pater familias who had power over everyone. In social terms, Rome was a society which gave women more rights than in China. Roman women were considered free and had some control over their wealth and property. The Roman society was a hierarchical society. Each social group had well defined roles and birth played a part in

Women in Ancient Rome In Roman times women were treated differently depending on their class, and family background. However Roman women off all social classes were expected to assume, that they were merely possessions of their fathers and then of their husband.

Women living during the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty lived in a society where gender roles were strictly imposed. The Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty existed in two distinctive time periods, but the roles of women were indistinguishable between the pair. The Han Dynasty existed from 206 BCE-220 CE, while the Roman Empire lasted from 27 CE-476 CE. The treatment women received in the Han and Roman societies were all based on gender and stereotypes. Women’s roles in marriage, domestic life, and society in the Roman Empire and Han China portrayed their limited freedom and voice.

Classical China and India both had established and organized patriarchal society in which different gender roles had stemmed. For instance, in China the head male figure, such as a Father, was always in charge. This probably evolved from constantly respecting their elders and the role that women obtained in classical agricultural societies. India likewise, they had a strong tendency to put males in charge—in the Indian caste system, women were always at a lower rank than men. Even though they were important and respected among society, women were still encouraged to worship their husbands like gods. All of these structures that Classical India and China had standardized contributed to them being an organized patriarchal society.

The role of women in both the the Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire women was ambiguous. The Han Dynasty ruled from 206 BCE–220 CE. Much later came the Roman Empire, which lasted from 27 CE-476 CE. In these civilizations, elite women were treated very differently than men because of their gender. Women had limited political freedom, their marriages were not loving partnerships, and women’s social expectations oppressed them. Although the Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire were separated by many miles, their women were treated with equal inequality.

Therefore, general assumptions to one extreme or the other on the status of women in the ancient world of Rome are difficult, because theory and reality were often far apart. For example, whereas Greek men usually regarded their wives as unimportant, Roman men placed a high value on marriage, home and the family and this made a difference in the way society treated of women.

During the Song Dynasty (960–1279) in Ancient China, the gender in which a person was born as, changed their whole path of life. Their role in society, their education, their power in the household were very different depending on if they were male or female. A typical female had much less power compared to a man; they were considered the inferior gender. It was unfair, and to an extend, cruel, the way that women were treated compared to a man, but during that time in China, it was so normal that no one questioned it. The roles that each gender held were rigid, quite different, and clearly not equal. As China gained power during this time and became more powerful, women were greatly downgraded by men because men were thought to be the ones

During the Classical Era, the Roman Empire and Han Dynasty emerged as two formidable forces in a world of conquest and empire-building. While Rome and Han China had similar methods of imperial consolidation concerning their patriarchal societies and upper-classes, the two differed greatly in their bureaucracies, policies regarding conquered peoples, and labor systems. Patriarchy was a prominent aspect of the societies of both empires. The family unit in Rome was ruled by paterfamilias, the male head, and women were thought of as children needing the care of their fathers or husbands and were confined to household duties. Women had no role in the public life so the Roman governing bodies and laws were all created by men that only served to

Han China and Imperial Rome have many similarities in how they were run for example in Imperial Rome and Han China the two EMpires both had Emperors and another thing was that they had a bureaucratic government. Another similarity was that both societies were patriarchy type Empire and they were similar in how they elected their officials. The way they did this was that in the Han Dynasty if people wanted to become part of the bureaucracy then they would have to take the Civil Service Test and based on how they did higher up people would decide if they are allowed in China’s bureaucracy. Over in Imperial Rome, they did not

The roman empire and the Han Dynasty had many similarities as well as differences. Many of which were political and social with the assembly of political figures as well as the woman's role within the house hold. A few of the differences are their individual forms of government and military campaigns led by each empire. The woman's role in both the Han Dynasty as well as the Roman Empire were similar in that woman were expected to be submissive to the dominant men in their households as well as the requirement of working hard within their house with little to no reward. Within the Roman Empire, women were to remain loyal to their fathers until such time as they were to marry at a very young age to a man that they were promised to.

Comparison The Roman and Han empire's technology and societies were very different, yet similar in certain aspects as well. One of the biggest differences between the chinese and the romans’ societies was how they ran their empires. Han China ran their empire by following the philosophy of confucianism, and they were an absolute monarchy. while rome ran a republic.

The Han Dynasty's religious perspectives were to make custom penances of creatures and sustenance’s to gods, spirits, and progenitors, so it was more profound. Roman ladies had more financial flexibility and impact on their spouses and children. Ladies in the Han Dynasty were relied upon to cook, clean, deal with her guardian in-laws, make dressed, and that’s

Some ancient societies saw women as inferior to men. For example, in ancient China, philosophers such as Confucius taught that women were to look after the man and they should only be respected as a mother or mother-in-law. However, in civilizations such as India, where women had many privileges in the beginning. This did change in the Later-Vedic Age, though, as factors like polygamy got worse and deteriorated the position of women. In Rome and Greece, women were vital to a family's success in work as farmers and artisans. On

The Han Dynasty of China from 206 B.C.E. to 220 C.E. and Imperial Roman Empire from 31 B.C.E. to 476 C.E. are well known classical empires. Both these empires have their commonalities and variances in their political structure. Religion played a huge role in both these empires; Christianity in Rome and Confucianism in China. Both Rome and China had an unstable situation in terms of politics which emphasized the family unit and the authority of parents. Rome and China had two very different political systems that both resulted in failure due to their large territory being invaded countless times.

Over the history of the world the gender relationship between men and women has been changing. These changes can be seen during the Paleolithic Era where men and women were considered to have equal status, but when farming became a community’s primary source for food we see the status of women decrease and men assume the more dominant role. With men having a higher status than women and the start of the Urban Revolution societies begin to form patriarchies. By looking at early civilizations these historical trends are revealed. Over the course of history the status of women has been changing, and these changes are marked by key changes during that era.