The Kushan Empire was from 20 to 280 AD. It started as a branch of the Yuezhi. Yuezhi is a confederation of culturally Indo-Europeans travelers who lived in Eastern Central Asia. Around the twentieth and thirtieth CE, the Kushan’s were the ancestors of the Huns. They established an independent empire in modern Afghanistan, Bactria, where they conquered the Scythians and the local Indo-Greek kingdoms. From that central location, the Kushan Empire became a wealthy trading focus between the peoples of Han China, Sassanid Persia, and the Roman Empire. The Kushan Empire incorporated religion and architecture to their customs of other cultures and integrated from other peoples’ customs into the Kushan Empire’s culture.
The Kushan Empire was multicultural in which it incorporated to their customs of other cultures. It established many ethnicities and religions living under common rule, abiding by common law. The Kushans had religious buildings such as Buddhist shrines, temples and cemeteries. Concentrations of religious buildings in the Kushan city played an important role as centres of ideological life. The city was encircled by a deep channel and surrounded by walls. Among the urban roads were
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Greek religion, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism and Buddhism were the four religions living peacefully together in it. The Kushan Empire not only influenced other cultures, but other cultures also influenced them. One of their biggest influencers was the Greeks. They adopted the Greek alphabets and made it their own. The Kushans also depicted Greek legends on their coins. They borrowed the knowledge of Zoroastrianism from the Iranians and adopted wrestling from they Scythian tribes. Mahayana Buddhism plays a huge effect on Asia today. They framed a lot of what India and some parts of China are today with their people and their ideas. Areas like Japan, China and Korea follow Mahayana
Daily life was influenced in both Ancient India as well as in Ancient China by religion and philosophies. Their caste system, their beliefs, and their well being affected the religion and philosophies.
...ther religions since they never really comitted to one main religion. Han China spread Confucianism by leading Confucius lives, they used Confucius ideas for their law codes and taught Confucius ideas to their children. The Confucian ideas spread by the Han helped rulers like Wudi have long reigns of power by embracing rule by morals and ethics. It also helped spread written exams as ways to determine peoples places and jobs in society based off of merit as opposed to putting anyone anywhere just to give people jobs. China also had a growing population of Daoists who believed in the power of nature. As time progressed both of their societies changed their religions. Rome slowly progressed from a basic Hellenistic polytheism to the once persecuted Christianity. Meanwhile China, which was mainly a Confucian and Daoist led society began to accept and embrace Buddhism.
...nt power. As for the Gupta/Mauryan Empire they had the religions of Hinduism and Buddhism in their Empire. For all of the Empires since their religions had become a huge part of their beliefs the administrative government for each Empire had persuaded the beliefs as well. The administrative governments was the based of orders for the kingdom that is where the leaders were at and where the majority of their currency was going, for each Empire. Since Rome had overextended in military and economic wealth there were rebellions against their Empire and over time the Roman Empire came to an end. As for the Gupta/Mauryan Empires they decided on giving more of there political power toward the government that had been based on family lineage. When family members in the government died they became weaker and eventually their Empires came to an end.
Two important, mighty Asian empires in history are the Ottoman Empire and the Ming China. These two empires are in totally different areas of Asia – the Ottomans were in the very west, the Chinese were in the oriental east. Therefore, these two empires, naturally, formed completely different cultures. However, surprisingly, these empires had many parts in common as well. The Ottoman Empire and the Ming Dynasty had both many different and distinct parts, as well as many similarities.
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.
The Classical Era was a time of greatness. Great empires rose to power, the likes of which the world had never seen before. In the west, Rome emerged as the dominant power. Originating in the Italian peninsula, the Roman Empire would eventually stretch from Britain to Mesopotamia and Egypt, a huge empire maintained through a vast network of roads. This empire was made of hundreds of different cultures. In the east, the Han dynasty ruled China, Vietnam, and northern Korea. Han China was united not only by government, but also by culture. Confucianism, a belief system focused on maintaining order, was extremely influential, as was another belief system called Daoism, to a lesser extent. During the Classical Age, the creation of powerful empires allowed for safer trade. Safer trade allowed huge amounts of cross-cultural interaction, trade and the sharing of ideas. But as other empires had done before, and as many did after, the empires of Rome and Han China fell. Rome and Han China had both similarities and differences. The most important similarity was plagues and diseases, and the most important difference was the destruction of culture.
Imperial Rome and Han China were significant classical empires which have influenced history. Although Imperial Rome and Han China shared centralized governments, infrastructure, and military control of large governments, they differed in their particular methods and values that supported the development of their empires.
The Han dynasty and the Roman Empire were both powerful empires during their era. However, the ways they obtained their power varied greatly because they used different methods that involved their political structures, which revolved around their centralized governments. The Han dynasty and the Roman Empire acquired very unique techniques that allowed them to control social and political. For example, the Han dynasty adopted a religion known as Confucianism, which monitored everything in the lives of the Chinese. Contrary, the Roman Empire established a monarchy but allowed its residents more freedom as compared to the Han. Nevertheless, the two empires were similar in political structures in that the power was depended on the wealthy that were in authority, the peasants struggled with their lives because of concerning issues such as food supply. The empires were able to create and preserve a peaceful and sustainable lives for a long time, unlike the past empires. Social distribution were under the control of the wealthiest and they could effortlessly impact community viewpoints and interactions among the residents. These two empires existed during the Classical Period had comparable and various social, political, religions, as well as economical values and practices. However, they both possessed differences and similarities in their economic and social perspectives even though the two empires were established around the same era.
Emperor Augustus and Darius were perceived and semi divine rulers. Persian and Roman religious philosophies were similar since they were both polytheistic, but later Romans adopted Christianity, which was influenced by Zoroastrianism. Both of these theological concepts are based on salvation, heaven, and hell. Even though the Persian and Roman Empire were centralized and bureaucratic, the government system they incorporated was very different from one another. One key similarity between Persia and Rome was that a body of laws was used as an attempt to keep peace with in their respective realms. By far, these empires were heavily similar in the infrastructure used to maintain communication, transport food, and obtain water for consumption and agriculture. Overall, it is quite astonishing that the Persian and Roman empires had many
The Mongol empire and Alexander The Great’s empire were two of the most interesting and powerful empires of all time. Yet, even with many similarities there are many differences as well between these two great empires. The Mongol empire began during the 13th and 14th centuries in which it was the largest land empire in all of world history. It was located beginning in the Central Asia and eventually spread all the way to Central Europe. Alexander The Great’s empire, Macedonia, was a Greek empire located in Central Greece. Both of these giant civilizations became the biggest empires the world has ever seen.
The Han Dynasty governed China for more than four hundred years. It rose to power in 206 BC and stayed until 220 AC. The Han Dynasty played a vital role in China’s development. This dynasty pioneered a political system and social structure that lasted in China for almost 2,000 years. The Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire were considered two of the most strongest civilizations at that time. The Roman Empire lasted from 27 BC to 393 AD. This empire changed the way Romans lived. The Romans made rapid advancements in science and technology. Both of these civilizations successfully took control of their countries. While they both have an abundant amount of similarities, they is an overwhelming amount of differences that set these two empires apart. The decline of these two civilizations were both caused by internal affairs. The Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire both ruled close to the same time span, they both had highly centralized political systems, and they both were the most advanced civilizations in their region of the world. Their similarities did not overshadow their differences however. The Roman Empire had a senate that served as their legislative body and in China, the emperors ruled over the city. The Han Dynasty implemented national equality, and used Confucianism thoughts to keep the country united, while the Romans divided their citizens into different social classes and kept ethic discrimination. While both civilizations had strong social class separators, the Roman Empire made their’s more apparent. Both civilizations were strong and advanced for their time, however, they both ruled their countries differently.
The two prominent empires, the Roman Empire in the west and the Han Dynasty in the east ruled over large sections of the world population. The significance of these empires on
...ials, but one could argue the fact that religion was the single most important influence on Korean and Japanese civilizations because most systems of government used religion to legitimize governmental power. Religion brought new forms of poetry and literature as well as new styles of architecture. Many Korean and Japanese monks traveled to China in search of new texts to translate. Agricultural developments improved the economic stability of the countries by providing improved irrigation systems and easier methods of food gathering. The major impacts of Chinese influence on legislation, agriculture, art, literature, and religion were crucial in the nationwide development of Japan through the Heian period and Korea through the period of unification under Silla and helped the countries learn and advance in technology on their own to advance their civilizations.
Buddhism was first introduced into Korean society by China during the Three Kingdoms period (Overview). Chinese Monk-emissaries had a large role in making Buddhism the main religion of Korea (Lee). The Three Kingdoms of Korea consisted of three different kingdoms, the Koguryo in the northern part of Korea (37 BC-668AD), the Paekche in the southwest peninsula (18BC-660AD), and the Silla (57BC-935AD). The first to adopt Buddhism was Koguryo in 372 AD, who then sent Buddhist Monks the Paekche the spread the religion. Paekche then adopted Buddhism in 384 AD (Korean History). The southern state of Silla did not adopt the religion until 528 AD. Although Buddhism was viewed as the main religion in Korea, it did not take precedence over the local religion. In fact, the Koreans took their gods and combined it with the Buddhist religion, making the previous gods the “protectors” of Buddha. The coexistence of Buddhism and the local religion is also known as Shamanism (Koo). Korean rulers also followed China by creating theories to make themselves equals to Buddha or sanctioned by Buddhism to have political authority (Koo). In 668 AD the Silla kingdom conquer...
...nese control, a southern Vietnamese state, called Funan, spread out over much of Indochina and the Malay Peninsula—providing a trading and cultural circle for Indian merchants, Brahman priests, and Buddhist monks. This Indian influence continued even after the decline of Funan, as did Indian influence in the independent state of Tai and the Khmer Empire of Cambodia. Also drawing on Indian tradition and Sanskrit writing was the maritime empire of Srivijaya based on the island of Sumatra, and dominating the waters in that area and extending up to the Malay Peninsula. After 800 it was the early Indian form of Buddhism (called Theravada Buddhism) that dominated in Southeast Asia. Finally, it was not direct Indian control that was the key to the expansion of Indian culture, but an extension of trade and religious networks.