Compare And Contrast Persia And Ancient China

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Both China and Persia had major influences to civilizations near them, but couldn’t be more diffrent. China was mostly peaceful, while persia leaned on warware. Persia was the first civilization to build an army, due to the fact of there location. While china’s location made it hard.

Persia’s civilization was smackdab in the middle and could be easily concored. It makes scence how they would be the first to make an army because that was there main priority. Persia was so afriad of getting concored that they had to go to extream measures. China was way diffrent there location was the hardest because of the Gobi desert, the ocean in the east, and the high mountain ranges. They were protected and were for the most part peaceful. They didn’t …show more content…

Both civilizations were patriarchal. Ancient Persian men were the superiors, performing the roles of ‘warriors’, activists in government, or hard workers in the family. In ancient China, the Book of Songs held daily accounts of typical women in society; from this book, women expressed that they were treated unfairly and had limited rights. Also, men were so highly honored, for example, they were worshiped after death as ‘spirits who brought good deeds’ upon their family. The patriarch-influenced empires in ancient China and Persia signified a ‘weak link’ in society; in addition to being an impetus for gender imbalance, ideas from women lacked, and thus technology and innovations did not develop as quickly as they could have.

Ancient China and Persia used tax systems. Taxes were used to pay for fees in the government, military, technological development or other societal contributions. Tax systems allowed both civilizations to maintain their economy and somewhat keep society balanced, although sometimes taxes were dedicated to the ruler, emperor, or the royal family- this would have affected lower classes negatively. Under the rule of Qin Shihuangdi in ancient China, the tax system was standardized. In addition to tax systems, ancient China and Persia had government workers.

China was peaceful and had major influenses to those civilizations around them, While Persia also influesned others relied on warfare. These

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