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Gupta India (320 B.C.E-550 C.E.) and Imperial Rome (31 B.C.E.-476 C.E.) both had very distinctive methods of political control based on everything from cultural reasons to geographic limitations. Many factors were present affecting the similarities and differences between the two.…
| |The Guptas did not produce as dynamic a leader as Ashoka, but they did provide classical India with its greatest period |…
During the Han dynasty, China successfully improved its bureaucracy, but in India local rulers maintained regional control. India’s territory never grew to be as large as China’s, so different forms of government were needed for each civilization. Han China retained the centralized government formed by the Qin, and expanded the bureaucracy. The bureaucratic system suited China, because it was able to support the civilization as it expanded into a large empire. The emperor Wu Ti created civil service examinations for his bureaucrats, which could be taken by any male. Wu Ti also urged Confucianism in order to gain support, as it urged respect for the government. On the other hand, India lacked an extensive bureaucracy, and local rulers were allowed to keep control as long as they remained loyal to Gupta authority. Because of its separated regions, it was very difficult to politically unify India. Similar to China, the Gupta rulers turned to religion to strengthen support for the government. In contrast to China, they favored Hinduism because they claimed to be appointed by Hindu gods. Additionally, Hinduism encouraged the rigid caste system. The empires were also similar because political power was given to landowners. Although the Gupta period is considered the golden age of India, providing its greatest period of political stability, it never developed the solid bureaucracy that Han China did.…
Following the time period of the development of the first civilizations came the Classical age. During this era, one learns about the different developing classical empires of their time, and their dissimilar customs of life. This time period consists of the rise and falls of the first Empires in India and China. Moreover, due to their different locations, each Empire adapted to their land and formed customs of their own best fit for their people. In the era of the Classical age, both the Han dynasty and the Gupta Empire reveal the diversity generated during the Classical period. While these two Empires certainly portray contrasting qualities of the other, some aspects of their lives mirrored each other as well.…
the caste system encouraged local loyalties. The decline of the Gupta Empire at the end of…
Women’s rights deteriorated after the Vedic period (1600-800 BCE). No one has been able to prove why this happened. Scholarly interest has focused on women’s exclusion from performing Hindu rituals, which was in effect by 500 BCE…Julia Leslie thinks that women’s exclusion resulted from intentional mistranslation of the Vedas by male scholars, as the rituals became more complicated and as the requirement for property ownership was more rigorously enforced at a time when women could not own property.…
Golden Age are the Han Dynasty of China (206 BCE-220 CE) and the Gupta Dynasty of India (320-550 CE). Both dynasties’ advancements have further influenced the modern world.…
From 300-600 CE, there were major changes in classical Indian civilizations as new religions were formed, political power was increased, and advancements in math and science were made. However, trade routes continued to flourish while the caste system was supported by the Hindu religion. These helped the patriarchal society flourish in the 300 years.…
The Han Dynasty lasted from 206 BCE – 220 BCE, and was in China. The Mauryan and Gupta Dynasty lasted from 322 BCE – 500 CE, and were in India. The Mauryan Dynasty ended by 185 BCE. The Gupta Dynasty started in 320 CE. In my essay I am going to be comparing and contrasting the 3 dynasty’s (2 of them as 1), and their control through religion, trade, male dominance, and how they fell.…
The Han dynasty and Gupta India were both large powerful empire who conquered most if not all their surrounding neighbors. They left a impression on the surrounding area and its history. Regardless of this influence they could not avoid the looming end that was coming. Like all large civilizations of its time both Gupta India's and the Han's golden age had to end. There are many reasons for this the largest ones being corrupt or weak government, foreign invasions, and internal rebellion.…
The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires were forces to be reckoned with back in the day. Being powerful entities, their rise was paved with military prowess, religious tolerance, and having meritocratic systems, though this is not always the case. Their fall, however, was the result of their treatment of peasants, a plague of horrid rulers, and shortsighted economic handling.…
Changes and continuities of religious practices and customs of India and the Indus River Valley are very prevalent. As the Indus River Valley transitioned into India, changes in religious customs began to occur. One of these changes was in the social hierarchy. Stricter caste systems began to appear. Another change was that of enforcement of religion in society. While there were no official religions of the Indus River Valley, Hinduism became the authorized religion of India. With all of this change, there were still many of the same beliefs as the civilization developed. One of the major continuities was the belief in reincarnation. Reincarnation was a large part of the Indus River Valley and of Hinduism in…
The similarity between the Han Dynasty and the Gupta/Mauryan Dynasty in terms of political control of the population was they both supported patriarchal families where women were subordinate to men. However, an important difference is that in India they had a caste system including jatis, which did not exist in Han China.…
Bold statements like this that painted India as a place where copious amounts of wealth were available for the taking created a rosy picture for Bernier’s largely European audience that was misleading at best. Delhi’s wealth, however, was unrepresentative of the wealth in North India or India as a whole. The city where a king lived was often wealthier than other cities in the kingdom in part because it received greater attention from the king due to its proximity to his court. While Delhi certainly had a far greater concentration of wealth than some periphery state in North India would have, not everyone shared in the wealth. The concentration of wealth in Delhi was concentrated at the top. Bernier provides evidence for this with his comment on the inequality he saw, even declaring that “In Delhi there is no middle state. A man must either be of the highest rank or live miserably” (Archibald Constable 252). Bernier’s description of the inequality, although likely exaggerated, certainly holds…
I decided to go a little different rout with this assignment. I was on Hulu.com, thinking about renting a movie off the list you provided, but then I felt I should check out the History Chanel on Comcast On-Demand to see if there was anything interesting that would be worth watching. I found a couple of different option that I could choose from, that I felt would fulfill the assignment requirements. The first option that I didn’t choose was about the incredible Roman Empire and their technology advancements. The second option that I did choose was about the Mughal Empire from 1526-1858 AD. I chose the Mughal Empire because I had no knowledge about the Mughal Empire prior to watching the History Chanel special.…