RELS 349 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Maurya Empire, Han Dynasty, The Great Game
31 Oct 2018
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3000 bce, get growth and development of city states. Rapid growth in urbanization until 1st century. Before 500 bc, there were various groups of terribly organized people. 500 bc is the beginning of the development of the cities. China was still its own area, greece was beginning to kick off. Persians were bent on conquering greece and rome, athenians were able to resist persians. Covered immense amount of land and area. Government used slaves to build roads (public works) First t have a major trading empire. Traded with greece on one hand, and india on the other hand. Today, these people are known as the parsi"s. Chinese empire (han dynasty) was gradually growing. Small villages on their own can"t do much and people live in poverty. Empires served an important role, because of them, there was lots of communication. Roman (parthian) empire embraced most of mediterannean. These empires were all in contact with each other.
