Compare And Contrast Ancient Rome And Han China

Ancient Rome and Han Dynasty China were very influential civilizations in global history. Both the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty of China had major impacts on the world today. However, after evaluating each one's contributions in military, art and architecture, and religion to world history, it is shown that the Roman Empire was more important to global history.

Firstly, Ancient Rome and Han Dynasty China were both very advanced for their time in the military field in different areas. One example of why Ancient Rome was advanced in the military was because of their organizational skills. The Romans showed their organizational skills by having arranged military classes. The first class of men was the hoplites, who were armed with a helmet,

Ancient Rome’s art consisted of many buildings with concrete-domed roofs. Roman pride and moralism are interestingly combined in their approach toward architecture. For instance, historians emphasize the size and grandeur of Rome's architecture and describe it as conquering the globe.5 This shows how impressive the architecture of Rome was. These buildings were especially hard to make because at the time it would take hundreds of Romans three months to complete one piece of architecture. This piece of evidence is also important because it shows how Roman art and architecture were “conquering the globe,” meaning other civilizations took some inspiration from Rome and integrated it into their art. Certain characteristics were identified as distinctive, such as realism in portraiture or spatial illusionism, continuous narrative, and historicity in relief. However, it became clear that all these elements were present in some way in ancient Greek art.6 This is important because it shows how the Romans did not invent this type of art themselves, but this type of art was around before they came. Although Rome was not the first civilization to use this type of art, they expanded this culture and influenced other civilizations in this way. In contrast, the Han Dynasty was extremely talented in art and architecture. By the 21st century BCE, Chinese builders had perfected the use of rammed earth for the walls and foundations of enormous imperial palaces, tombs, and gardens. They also discovered a way to keep wood structures from rotting because of rainy weather by setting them on a tall platform foundation and covering them with a huge roof. 7 This is important because it shows how advanced the Han Dynasty was in building structures for their civilization. With this technique, the Han were able to make and or build practically anything. The Han had