Riseand Fall of Rome and China
There are some smaller arguments, but the main reason China was more successful in their empire was because of the succession of emperors, Rome usually had tremendous amounts of conflict when the power would change hands, whereas China did not. The Chinese had a certain "excuse," for the actions that were taken when an old dynasty was overthrown. At a time of succession in Rome, there was usually a civil war, or many deaths to finally see who the new emperor was. Rome had one major flaw when gradually turning into their Empire from fallen Republic, this flaw dealt with who came next in their line of emperors (succession.) The first of the emperors were the Julio-Claudian, all of whom related in some way. Tiberius, the stepson of Augustus, was the first of bad emperors. The major flaw in Rome's empire emerged, the next emperor (Caligula) was Tiberius's nephew. Tiberius did not pick someone who was qualified or who seemed would be the best emperor, but picked his own kin, disregarding everything else. At the end of his reign, another one of Rome's problems surfaced, the internal conflict between Emperor's and their people (in this case, guards.) Caligula was killed by his own guards. Arguably, the best Julio-Claudian emperor
China never had the major flaw of the Roman Empire's succession because they (essentially), had an "excuse." Each dynasty lasted for extended periods of time, 1800 years in all, because there were no big conflicts. Coming out of the Neolithic Age came the Shang Dynasty. They used bronze for about everything, in particular weapons, with good weapons they could win wars, if they could win wars they could expand their empire. The most important part of their lives was their emperor, or Son of Heaven. It was not the actual emperor that people marveled at, but the position as emperor, as being a Son of God. The Chou Dynasty came next, thereby overthrowing the. To keep the people from uproar, the Chou claimed that Tien said it was ok to kill the emperor because he was bad, they claimed that this was a Mandate of Heaven. The Romans had no way to justify succession between rulers, there was war and chaos. The Mandate of Heaven was used by each of the succeeding emperors. One other major area that the Chinese Dynasties excelled in was there expansion of their empire, Rome was too big and had too many different kinds of people in it. Since China conquered other parts of China, everyone was (relatively) the same. Both Rome and China
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