The Fall Of The Han, Rome, And Gupta

The fall of the Han, Rome, and Gupta
In a period of four centuries the Han, Roman, and Gupta empires fell. First in China, then in the Mediterranean, and lastly in India. The civilizations deteriorated from foreign invasion, internal conflicts, and internal weakness that made it to where invaders could invade and cause the decline of these major civilizations.
Han civilization declined for two reasons, internal dispute and foreign invasions. In the empire bureaucrats were competing for power and this caused crime to happen. Landowners rebelled against paying taxes witch caused peasants taxes to increase, landowners started privately making armies, and farmers were forced into enslavement. A clear sign of the collapse in the central state was

due to the yellow turbans promising a golden age to be brought about by divine magic, but the Han generals cut off the rebellion. China was divided into three kingdoms for many decades, but over time they began to crumble, and the land owning class ruled china. The north and south started to pull apart, the south remained higher levels of economic growth and continuing to consume tribal peoples into Chinese culture. Northern china was rushed by invasions from central Asia. Chinese armies tried to abduct nomadic people and use them in their armies, but they broke free and invaded the middle kingdom. Nomadic invaders took over completely by the sixth century and converted somewhat to Chinese ways; political revival reemerged towards the end of the century. Strong rulers from the north drove out nomadic people and the people merged into a Chinese-Turkish background into a new dynasty called Siu dynasty. The decline of the Han opened up to new religious influences. Through the decline they held strong to their values.
The decline of the Guptas was not as harsh as the fall of the Han civilization. India did not depend on political structure, like the Han civilization did. India was the most stable and peaceful area during the fifth century, until nomadic invaders started to invade over time leading to a progressive decrease to the strength of the empire. Indian culture kept growing during all of this. Buddhism declined while Hinduism was on the rise in India. Arab armies started to invade India’s northwest region and won some people over in converting into Islamic religion. Islamic people stared to hit international economics and decreased India’s commercial strength. In the end the Guptas were completely controlled by the Hunas, they started by invading the north and then pushing central to the heart of Gupta controlled territory. The disappearance of the Guptas is really not that different from any other fall of many ancient dynasties.
The Roman Empire fell for many reasons; some of the reasons being a series of plagues went through the empire and obliterated some of the population. This caused the economic life to be critically disrupted. The urban population of Rome received lead poisoning from the aqueducts. The lead poisoning caused people to become weak or they died and the population reduced. Population problems came upon Rome in defending their empire. The empire hired Germanic soldiers to gaud the roman frontiers; the demand for money became an issue when it was time to pay the Germanic troops causing them to cut into tax revenues. Political power was given to land owners to bring local support, but this caused the empire to overall be weakened. With the empire weak the economy was directed away from trade patterns of the Mediterranean civilizations.