The Conrad Demarest Model of Empire: Basic Principles ? I.? Necessary preconditions for the rise of empires: state-level government Rome:? republic Han:? kept most of Qin centralized government in place high agricultural potential in the area Rome:? wheat, grapes, cattle Han:? wheat, millet, pigs an environmental mosaic Rome:? Alps, Mediterranean Sea, forests, Tiber and other rivers, hills Han: Tianshan mountains, Yellow and Yangtze river, loess soil, Pacific Ocean several small states with no clearly dominant state (power vacuum) Rome and other city-states on Italian peninsula; surrounding states in Mediterranean (Greek states, Egypt, Judea, Syria, Cyprus, Gaul, Romania, Spain, Sicily, Sardinia, Carthage, etc. Han:? Qin empire broken into smaller states
The Conrad-Demarest Model of empire: Basic Principles
The Conrad Demarest Model of Empire: Basic Principles ? I.? Necessary preconditions for the rise of empires: state-level government Rome:? republic Han:? kept most of Qin centralized government in place high agricultural potential in the area Rome:? wheat, grapes, cattle Han:? wheat, millet, pigs an environmental mosaic Rome:? Alps, Mediterranean Sea, forests, Tiber and other rivers, hills Han: Tianshan mountains, Yellow and Yangtze river, loess soil, Pacific Ocean several small states with no clearly dominant state (power vacuum) Rome and other city-states on Italian peninsula; surrounding states in Mediterranean (Greek states, Egypt, Judea, Syria, Cyprus, Gaul, Romania, Spain, Sicily, Sardinia, Carthage, etc. Han:? Qin empire broken into smaller states
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