Rise And Fall Of Empires Research Paper

CJ Bostwick
Dr. DeMayo
History 105
21 June 2015

Final Question #3 The rise and falling of empires are events that have happened all throughout the history of the world. Empires form and crumble in many different fashions. The Geographical, political, economic, and military factors play very important roles. The Assyrian Empire came into power when they conquered southern Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. They were very powerful because they were the first army who rode to battle on horseback. The Assyrian army also had access to iron weapons to combat against their enemies. The Assyrian ruler did not want to invade foreign territories because he feared he would lose many of his men. Instead he asked the foreign

Shang Yang was the Qin ruler, he made changes all throughout their government. Zheng divided the empire into forty military districts called commanderies, each headed by a governor and military commander (Hansen and Curtis 96). He constructed the first military draft system; he made sure that every sixteen and seventeen year old boy that was at least five foot tall joined the military. Those boys had to grow up very fast because they had to pay land taxes and had the duty of labor service such as road construction. He sent officials to register every household in the Qin land; this made a direct link between each subject and the ruler (Hansen and Curtis 91). The Qin army became the strongest in China due to the implementation of meritocracy. This made their army very competitive because every soldier would start as a low ranking officer, but each soldier had the same opportunity to raise his rank which meant raising his stature of his household (Hansen and Curtis 94). The Qin dynasty did not have time to create a government system for all of China, but it created the backbone of their governmental system. The Qin dynasty abruptly ended when the Emperor’s son committed suicide and he did not have a

Once they conquered a new society, they immediately integrated them into their empire and required them to perform military and physical acts to decrease the chances of a revolt by the new citizens (Hansen and Curtis 407). The Inca were not very organized when it came down to the succession of the empire; this led to violent conflicts where the last man standing was appointed as the new leader. The Inca believed in deities; the most important were the Creator, the Sun, and the Thunder gods. In 1500, the Incan rule Sapa Inca claimed that he was a direct descendant from the Sun god. Their caste system was split into three tiers and it included everyone, including Sapa Inca and the Sun god priest. The top tier was the relatives and close relatives of the ruler or previous rulers, the second tier was the more distant relatives, and the last tier were the cultures that were conquered by the Inca. Something that set the Inca society apart from other cultures was that the mothers family was how things were settled in court politics because the ruler took his wives from his mother’s family. The Inca were a military force during this time; they would invade territories for their products in each respected area. Before entering a territory, they would cut off the foreign area from food and water and then they would make their forceful entry with a large infantry in their