Questions-The silk roads & Byzantium 1 It helped set the stage because long distance trade was happening between east and west Asia already which brought the influence and beginning of silk roads. 2 The fine spices-cloves‚ nutmeg‚ mace‚ and cardamom came from Southeast Asia. Ginger came from China and Southeast Asia‚ pepper from India‚ and sesame oil from India‚ Arabia‚ and Southeast Asia. Central Asia produced large‚ strong horses and high-quality jade. The Roman Empire came glassware‚ jewelry
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Confucius and Plato Confucius and Plato were two of the most respected and widely known thinkers. There philosophies of how people should be governed‚ what characteristics make for a good leader‚ and other thoughts have influenced many aspects of the ancient and present world. Confucius and Plato’s ideas have benefited their own civilizations and later civilizations‚ and they both shared many similarities and differences in their ideas. First‚ Confucius‚ a Chinese thinker and the founder of Confucianism
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reveal that in a Confucian society‚ the only place a woman can exist is as an inferior to her husband. Ban Zhao‚ expands upon the idea that women were inferior to men in her book Lessons for Women. The book was written in China during the Han Dynasty when Han Confucianism was the official ideology‚ giving an accurate representation of the Confucian view on women from a woman’s point of view. Zhao’s book explains that from an early age women need to be taught that they are low‚ weak‚ and must do
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The Silk Road has been standing from the Han Dynasty to the 1450s and the major item of trade was silk from China. Although some other regions like Ancient Rome and the India have discovered how to manufacture silk‚ China still has remained the main place to get silk. The reason why this is so is
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differences become much more pronounced. The Warring States period occurred during the decline of the Zhou dynasty‚ which had ruled for 600 years before prominent
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The civilisation of Ancient China was influenced by a complex mix of beliefs‚ values and traditions. Some‚ such as Taoism‚ were religious; others‚ such as Confucianism‚ were more to do with behaviour. Closely tied in with these were many rituals influencing how people were buried‚ how they arranged their homes‚ how they drank their tea and much more. These beliefs and practices were influenced by the Ancient Chinese religions because people that followed them believed what the religions traditions
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Mr. Behnke AP World History‚ 3rd period 19/September/2013 Classical Athens and Han China: How Great Were the Differences? As the young Rudyard Kipling once wrote‚ “Oh East is East‚ And West is West‚ And never the twain shall meet”. Right you are‚ good sir. In this case‚ our east is the great Han China with Athens being our west. Winter and summer‚ black and white‚ the differences of the hilariously outweigh the similarities. While both
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ruling changed are the Assyrian and the Persian Empires‚ both viewed as political models as well as models of the effective use of ideology. The Zhou Dynasty‚ although not politically centered enough to be considered an empire‚ also mastered the efficient and effective working of ideologies and successful political rule. These three empires‚ or dynasty in the case of the Zhou‚ perhaps the
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2007 DBQ At the height of the Han and Roman Empires‚ the emergence of technological advancements heavily influenced their societies. These advancements had several benefits in improving the social order of the empires‚ however they also had their negative effects; the essential argument being that the more elaborate‚ and intricate the inventions were‚ the higher they were considered in the social classes. The simpler‚ craft-like inventions on the other hand‚ were said to be made by men who are
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In the Dynastic cycle‚ the shang and zhou Dynasties of ancient China showed similar periods of prosperity . the Shang and the Zhou dynasties shared an interest in education and domestic family structure. Both of the dynasty were similar in many ways like they both had one ruler and they both had a lot of wealth. The Zhou appointed governors and the Shang had local lords rule. Zhou and shang also had some differences like for example zhou took farm control over china after they beat shang
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