Ancient Rome And Han China
From 753 B.C.E. to 600 C.E. ancient Rome and Han China grew and established new inventions, water works, and use of slaves. Their similarities include, usage of slaves, and water technology. Some differences include, agricultural products and government structure.
The people of both ancient Rome and Han China needed water. Water was needed for dehydration would take over, crops would wither, and it provided a express and cost-effective means for transporting people and products.
One manner to obtain water was to build aqueducts to carry water from remote lakes and rivers to civilization. Because the aqueducts still stand in some places, they had to have been well-built. Once in the city, the water was stored in a reservoir were the water is split into the different parts of the city.
Both had slaves to do a lot of the physical labor. Chinese slaves could be forced to work hard and take part in numerous basic everyday jobs as their Roman counterparts. However, it was rare to see a Roman slave daring to refuse a request from nobleman, because severe punishment was soon to follow. It also appears that slaves in China had legal protections from contracts stating what could be asked of them. Nevertheless both ancient Rome and Han china's slaves were great to the economy.
In ancient Rome, agriculture included olives, for oil, food, and anything else, also grew grapes, for food and wine. Han China on the other hand grew rice and any crop that could grow in very wet conditions. Rome’s agriculture is dry while Han is wet.
Rome was in use as early as 1000 B.C.E.
The Latin speech and cultural patterns of the native
population of the site were typical of the native population of most of the peninsula. However, tradition sees Etruscans arriving in the 7th century B.C.E., and Rome came to delight itself by giving hospitality to outcasts.
Liu Bang, had established a new dynasty, the...
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