C. Imperial societies relied on Latifundia: (pg 232) a range of methods to Slavery: maintain the production of Taxation: food and provide rewards for Legalism in China: the loyalty of elites. D. Patriarchy Persia: (Explain its practice in each Greece: location) Rome: IV. The Roman, Han, Persian, Mauryan, and Gupta empires created political, cultural, and administrative difficulties that they could not manage, which eventually led to their decline, collapse or transformation into successor states. A. Environmental damage Persia: caused by empires Romans: China: India: B. External problems along Persia: frontiers/threats of invasion Romans: China: India: Chapter 3 - Big Questions (Short Answer Responses required) What common features can you identify in the empires described in this chapter? In what ways do they differ from one another? What accounts for those differences? How do these empires of the second-wave of civilizations differ from the political systems of the First Early River Valley Civilizations? How did centralized governments, elaborate legal systems and bureaucracies help to organize their subjects in these emerging ‘states’ and ‘empires’? Using diplomacy? Building fortifications, defensive walls, and roads? Drawing new groups of military officers and soldiers from the local populations or conquered people? Hierarchies existed in these societies… put the following groups of people in order from low to high… Artisans, merchants, laborers, cultivators, elites, slaves What were some of the causes for the decline, collapse, and transformation into successor empires or states for the following empires? Roman, Persian, Han, Mauryan and Gupta?
C. Imperial societies relied on a range of methods to maintain the production of food and provide rewards for the loyalty of elites. Latifundia: (pg 232) Slavery: Taxation: Legalism in China: D. Patriarchy (Explain its practice in each location) Persia: Greece: Rome: IV. The Roman, Han, Persian, Mauryan, and Gupta empires created political, cultural, and administrative difficulties that they could not manage, which eventually led to their decline, collapse or transformation into successor states. A. Environmental damage caused by empires Persia: Romans: China: India: B. External problems along frontiers/threats of invasion Persia: Romans: China: India: Chapter 3 - Big Questions (Short Answer Responses required) What common features can you identify in the empires described in this chapter? In what ways do they differ from one another? What accounts for those differences? How do these empires of the second-wave of civilizations differ from the political systems of the First Early River Valley Civilizations? How did centralized governments, elaborate legal systems and bureaucracies help to organize their subjects in these emerging ‘states’ and ‘empires’? Using diplomacy? Building fortifications, defensive walls, and roads? Drawing new groups of military officers and soldiers from the local populations or conquered people? Hierarchies existed in these societies… put the following groups of people in order from low to high… Artisans, merchants, laborers, cultivators, elites, slaves What were some of the causes for the decline, collapse, and transformation into successor empires or states for the following empires? Roman, Persian, Han, Mauryan and Gupta?
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