Eons Great Empires Case Study

Reproducing Empire examined how the U.S. colonized Puerto Rico and used the same practices of former colonial powers to conduct economics, social, and medical experiments on Puerto Rico’s population notably Puerto Rican women through a series of sterilization, population control, and contraceptive programs administered by the U.S. government and private corporations with the blessings of Puerto Rico’s bourgeoisie and political elite under the disguise of “development,” which laid the foundation for future U.S. globalization (imperialism) policies. A number of these experiments such as the 1972 Tuskegee syphilis experiment, birth control and sterilization programs were replicated in the mainland by the U.S. Public Health Service and state agencies.

The Roman Empire was known for being the most powerful nation in the world for over 2,000 years. Otherwise known as the eternal city, Rome quickly became the largest empire after being a city-state. However, for several reasons and over a long period of time, the empire began a period of decline. At the end of this period was obviously the fall of the Roman Empire. There are many aspects that contributed to the failure of the Empire, and different people argue that different reasons were most important to the collapse of this superpower. Social, economical, and political reasons are held responsible for the crash of the empire. The real cause of the crash was due to military over spending, inflation, and unemployment throughout the

Throughout the Middle Ages, the growth of empires required the development and cooperation of centralized governments, organized religions, and expansive trade routes. Centralized governments provided the security and resources needed to expand trade which in turn, allowed for the spread of religions. Organized religions promoted higher education and unity which aided in the maintenance of government. The bolstering of trade generated the revenue needed to finance the government. Examples of these close-knit trends are rampant within the Middle Ages.

Students will receive a homework sheet near the end of class with remaining time the students will be able to start homework (not as a group) and ask any questions they may have before taking the worksheet home with them.

Byzantine merchants in Constantinople were situated along routes going in every direction and maintained direct commercial links with manufacturers and other merchants from all over Europe and Asia. Byzantium drew enormous amounts of wealth from the control of trade and the levying of customs duties on merchandise that passed through (Bentley, Ziegler, & Streets-salter, n.d.). Therefore, success came easily to Byzantine merchants, who enjoyed a very strong position in international trade. Eventually, the purchasing power of Byzantine merchants became such that it could influence prices in markets as far as Cairo and Alexandria (Laiou & Cecile, 2007). Also, in response to their success, emperors gave merchants the right to become members of the Senate (Laiou & Cecile, 2007).

“ A man’s status is just the same as with rats. It simply depends on where one locates oneself!” (Dawson, 23). The Oxford world’s classic book, The First Emperor, is a famous writing about the first emperor’s legacy and how the empire continues after his death. Throughout this book we see a mass number of influential people. These same influential people all play a massive role in the development of the empire and even the change of the empire after the death of the first emperor. Sima Qian uses influences from lesser figures such as Lu Buwei, Li Si, and even Zhao Gao from this book to set up the motion that greater figures such as emperor Zichu and the Second Generation Emperor are completely reliant on lesser figures to achieve higher statuses

In the beginning, there were only city states in the ancient land of Mesopotamia. These city states were small, and independent, until new cities came along with a strategy. This strategy was to create empires by reuniting city states together and conquering them. Now that there was this strategy, more empires were created and eventually turned into civilizations.

The Gupta ruled the largest and most prosperous empire in India, but in the first centuries CE it was not the most powerful in the world. To the west, Rome ruled the area around the Mediterranean Sea, and to the east, the Han Dynasty controlled China. The stability that the Roman, Han, and Gupta Empires brought to Asia spurred trade on the Silk Roads. This greatly benefited all three empires and the areas in between. Wealth and ideas passed along the trade network providing the money and ideas necessary for Golden Ages.

I disagree because the French where only interested in spreading their “empire” by military conquest and making colonies in places which were already inhabited by the native peoples. I honestly think that the French where only interested in helping their selves when it came to them colonizing Vietnam. The reason I think this is because in the Olson Roberts book makes a few statements such as “The French… treat the people like garbage… the meek are made into slaves, the strongminded are thrown into jail. They physically powerful are forced into the army, while the old and weak are left to die…” (Olson Roberts pg 9). This shows that the French wanted to keep the population under control by getting rid of the ones that could make an uprising or

Throughout this course, we have discussed and debated the several different themes that helped form history. In doing this, we were able to compare the different empires, wars, revolutions and other major events. Throughout history the theme, how changes in ideas about government and the rights of people shaped history.

Post Classical politics first came to be when Kong Fuzi or Confucius brought it up during the classical era. Confucius was an educator and a political advisor. At the time, China was experiencing problems and Confucius helped to settle everything. He passed his knowledge on to students who then created analects which are political and cultural traditions that Confucius had taught. Confucius was a very wise man. He did not answer philosophical questions because it did not help to solve the problems at hands and he refused to answer religious question because it was too complex for mere human beings to understand. He believed that political and social harmony came from appropriate arrangements of human relationships with one another. To him,

The economy has been essential for empires and kingdoms throughout the human history. It was the main reason that caused the appearance of nobility and political organization after the specialization occurred just in the beginning of the Neolithic revolution. Later on, during the mid-bronze age, Governments were mostly not able to sufficiently feed their needs as all the societies were used to acquire some of their demands using trade. Even if they were able to, the greed to possess more luxurious and exotic goods had always kept the path open for nations to trade. Late Bronze Age was a period of mass trade between superpowers, as most of them were well fed and introduced to none local foods.

To summarize, the rules were not really for common people and the empire so could bring many horrible incidents and adverse effects to the society. Life of the rich and poor were totally different, and society were messed up. Most of all, there were specially many negative aspects and terrible incidents during Dark Age than other empires, and it lasted for about 800 of years, which was really long period of time.

There were many differences between the empires of today’s History but they shared the same goal of attempting to expand their rulings. The Roman Empire was able to spread through most of Europe because of their more developed technology and its methods of building roads. Some roads in Italy helped Rome to come in contact with the many territories.

The early empires, numerous and powerful, provided structure for a long amount of time. While some may be far apart, they share some similar features. Highlighted in Chapter 3, the Roman, Persian, Mauryan, and Han Empires show a glimpse of early societies. All empires had one main focus: expanding their territory. In addition to the expansion of territories, they shared the desire to establish different types of governments. Most of the empires shared the same polytheistic origins, contributing all of their success to the gods.