Similarities Between Ancient Greece And Ancient China

Ancient Greece and China had similar problems. They both had to deal with civil wars. They also dealt with rivers flooding. Lastly, they both had to deal with plague that killed a lot of the population in the Ancient lands.

Flooding was a problem in both Greece and China. When the land flooded, their crops were destroyed. In even bigger floods, the water destroyed hundreds of homes. In ancient Greece they had 3 major floods: ogeyus, Deucalion, and Dardanus. In Ancient China, they only had 1: the great flood. Soon after these floods, the rulers appointed people to figure out how to use these floods to their advantage. The two civilizations learned to plant their crops directly after the flood. Ancient China learned to put their crops higher

off the ground so the soil will absorb the water and go into the plants. The ancient civilizations also built their houses higher off the ground so there won't be any flood damage. Ancient Greece built trenches and holes around the water so if it did flood the water would go in the holes. Ancient China and Greece built dikes running through the water to stop water flow.
Another problem of both these ancient countries was civil war. In Ancient Greece they had a 27 year long war called the Peloponnesian war. It started by Athens attacking a Spartan ally .In ancient China they had small battles fought because one side didn't like the ruler but the other did. Civil war is what killed most of the population in Greece. In china, they had over 22 wars against themselves! They had a lot of wars because one group thought that the current ruler was a bad ruler so they had wars against the other city states that wanted the current ruler. The wars never ended.
The last problem they had was plague. Both cities tried to use medicines and herbs to stop the plague but it only slowed. The disease spread because when men got sick, they didn't stay home. They came into contact with hundreds of people but only 20 in 100 got infected. They had malaria to small poxes to the measles, and even the common cold! In ancient Greece for a common cold, they drained some of your blood. It didn't help you, it made you sicker. In ancient china they used willow bark (aspirin) and cough syrup to make you feel better. Scientist has found bodies of people who died and found that they died from an unknown plague near Athens, Greece.
In both Ancient countries, they shared the same problems. But they did it in a different ways. Like Ancient Greece and China had flooding, plague, and wars going on in their ancient countries. All of these destroyed the countries.