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Why Did The Fall Of The Han Dynasty Dbq

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The Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty civilizations both arose around the same time. While both civilizations had their highs in wealth and battle, they also had low points. They both eventually had problems that led to the fall of their society.
There are some similarities between the reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire and the fall of the Han Dynasty. In Document 12, it says that the rulers of the Han Dynasty were not being good rulers and talking care of the civilization like they should. Instead, they were amusing themselves with pleasures of court life. Also, the people of China wanted to overthrow one of the reformist officials, Wang Mang, because he was trying to confiscate the great estates and abolish slavery. He eventually was killed. In Document 2, shows a list of all the changes in power from the Roman Empire because of the rulers not doing their duty to the people and they got assassinated or killed in battle. They both were having problems with the rulers not helping their civilization and doing things that the people of the civilization didn’t like. According to Document 4 and 5, the Roman Empire got invaded multiple times by different …show more content…

That does not mean that they were going to last. The Han Dynasty fell in 200 CE. The nomads had tried to invade China multiple times. Qin had ordered people to make the Great Wall of China to keep them out. Since a lot of people were working and dying to get this wall done, they civilization that was not working on the wall suffered. They had less food and less people doing the jobs that were needed to continue the civilization. In the Han Dyansty, they were dedicated to their military too. Only, Wudi started a military school for anyone, except only the rich could afford to send their kids to their, for military training and preparation. The military did start to weaken when they got attacked from outside invaders trying to get into

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