Compare And Contrast Roman And Chinese Empires

The Roman empire and the Chinese empire where two of the biggest civilizations in ancient times. These two empire shared many similar traits such as a vast amount of trade within its empire. These empire where also very different from one another. such as their political systems, social structure and their religion. The Rome and Chinese empire where mostly shared different traits with one another. However in the end they both of the empires fell during their final years. The Roman empire was a vast empire, it ruled all of Greece along with parts of north Africa. Rome itself was in a favorable location because it had a mild climate, good farm land, and a strategic location. China, however was in a state of isolation from other civilizations such as Rome. Eastern China was surrounded by the yellow river and the east china sea or pacific ocean. to the north was the Gobi desert, and the Himalayan mountains curved around the west border which led

Early Rome did not adopted a religion for its entire empire. Instead it was based on Greco-Roman beliefs. The gods in this type of religion had human like features. The gods were often used to illustrate human passions and fables. After the Rome had fully established its self it became very tolerant of religions such as Judaism. The emperor Constantine adopted Christianity and helped keep Rome alive for a few more years, however this caused a separation of the empire witch ultimately led to its downfall. China on the other hand, didn't live by a religion, it lived by the Confucian philosophy. The Confucian philosophy helped set order to china and restore it to its peace. The reason behind this is that Confucianism taught an orderly society that could thrive was one that had good trained officials rather than many laws. China also had a type of religion that was called Daoism. Daoism taught that we need to be one with nature and be in harmony with one