Compare And Contrast The Mongol Empire And Roman Empire

The Mongol Empire VS.The Rome Empire Throughout ancient years, there have been many empires that have impacted culture, politics, religion, and people. The Mongol empire and the Roman empire both had their ways of growing their empires, administering their empires, having successes and failures, and legacies. As the empires began to take shape, expand, and become more complex, they will important in the lives of people. To administer the Mongol empire, what Genghis Khan did was set up a capital city at Karakorum. Later on Mongol aristocrats were starting to take administrative positions and commoners were starting to take sedentary jobs. When Genghis Khan died, the land was distributed between his sons and the land was divided in four parts called khanates. Khan’s grandson named Khubilai Khan established the Yuan dynasty and completed the conquest of the Song. The Mongols would use the civil service exams for government jobs and use Confucianism as their religious state ethics. To administer the Roman empire, Octavian would rule certain provinces and he would select legates to govern them and the senate were responsible of rest of the provinces (but Octavian ruled more provinces). Even though the senate had some power, Octavian had a lot more power than

Over time after the nomadic tribes were united, the warriors grew into a ruthless army and eventually the Mongols conquered China and defeated the Song. On the other hand, the Roman empire was created by Octavian. When Julius Caesar died, Octavian and Marc Antony divided the land between west and east. Octavian and Marc Antony where starting to not get along with each other and later on had conflicts with each other and Octavian was the one who ended up living and becoming the first emperor of Rome, making the first empire of Rome. The Roman empire grew by keeping peace and increasing resources and administration