By Chuck Self

Religion: Christianity and Buddhism

Jesus Buddha

Confucianism and Daoism(Taoism)

Kong Qiu (Confucius) Laozi (Lao-Tzu)

Rome’s First Emperor

Augustus

China’s First Emperor

Qin Shi Huang

RomanChinese

Caesar Augustus

Terracotta Army

Both empires experienced frequent revolts

against the emperor and his policies

In Rome, many of the revolts were led by

slaves

In China, they were more typically initiated

by peasants

China

China

The Confucians believe that the best

possible government was a well-ordered

empire

Rome

The imperial expansion and stratification

were often regarded as violations of the

earlier republican ideals

China’s empire has lasted for the last 2000

years.

The empire has endured as a single

political entity.

Today, without an emperor, China’s

geopolitical unity continues

Rome’s empire rose, fell, and was gone.

It lives on as a concept.

China exercised

lasting

hegemonic

influence even on

neighbors it did

not conquer, like

Japan

The Roman Empire influenced the lands it

conquered.

It had less influence on those outside its

boundaries.

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of China and Western Europe Gary G. Hamilton The British Journal of Sociology Volume 41 No 1 pp77-104 http://www.istor.org/stable/591019 Horizon of Perception and Social Function:Greek, Roman, and

Chinese Historiography Compared Mutschler, Fritz-Heiner Horizons: Seoul Journal of Humanities,

June 2014 Volume 5 issue 1 pp 99-126 Seoul National University, Institute of Humanities http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6253.2010.01603

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