Political Systems: The Hans And The Romans

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The Hans and Romans are two major systems that flourished around 200 B.C.E-200 C.E) that were vastly similar in political structures and beliefs but were also very much different in both of these topics. The Hans and The Romans were only aware of each other, never had direct contact but still flourished widely in their time and shaping the world to what it is today. They both used supernatural sanction to support their rule in the political society but different in many different areas from the way their legal systems were built to who and how they ran their dynasty. The Hans and Romans had also shared many belief systems using what is defined as “universal terms” but had different types of social classes …show more content…

The Hans’ had shown a very characteristic feudal structure. They had emperor run the head of government and the emperor had to create the laws id the people, lead the arming force and as a chief executive officer when needed. They had also adopted the political system of the legalist and made the rules clear and harsh. Many tried to unify China through military and were able to defend and defeat other warring states around them. Their efforts were able to keep the formation but did not use brutal military forces and also tried building a wall known as “the Great Wall of China”. Soon later they were able to have positivity influence throughout china and sent standards for the Chinese written language and different stuff like currency, weights, and even measurements. Rome on the other hand was not your typical “rags to riches” story. Their empire’s political system had used Chinese domestic repercussions but had a brief transition into roman culture and did not last long. They governed small city states and always were watching the minority growth within the empire. They also had granted citizenship with very clear advantages and have things like a public office. Military units were big here to be known as legions and here the assimilation were kind and were offered to subject people.
Even they show many different political structures they both are the same in many ways. They both had used supernatural sanctions to support their rule to and defined themselves in universal terms. As of course language did serve in the political views and made a way of establishing an effective control over regions and growing a civil system. The Hans and Romans both established answers for the questions that help them build a strong government and that the laws were food and inherited both Chinese and Roman

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