Persian Civilization

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Every civilization has its own history and culture that make it unique from the others, but there are still commonalities throughout the history of empires. How the civilization started may differ, but how it progressed and advanced throughout its existence may not be so foreign from the others. This is of course how different societies first encountered each other; spreading outwards with the help of roads and transportation. Persian, Chinese, Indian, Greek and Romans were all known to have built roads, bridges and even methods of transporting water throughout their respective empires. They all also had some technology in place to control disease and maintain populations by growing foods with structured water systems. All of the technology …show more content…

The Persian society first started its road production alongside their legal and administrative policies as Achaemenid rulers took it into their hands to stretch their empire across the lands. They constructed a network that altogether reached about 1600 miles across the continent, taking caravans 90 days to travel it. This Persian Royal Road assisted with carrying urgent messages from city to city by using the roads postal service and was also used to spread goods and stimulate trade. Over time the Achaemenids added onto the network and improving roads to extend to other areas such as India, Mesopotamia, Syria and Egypt. These roads greatly affected the growth of the Empires economy. As for India, they had roads built in their territory, but preferred to travel and trade by sea, using the monsoon winds to their advantage to trade with foreign nations and overall expand their economy as well. During the Han dynasty of China, a huge trade route called the silk road was started and changed the worlds trade more than ever. Connecting China with India, Persia, Mesopotamia and the distant Romans, the silk road was one of a kind. The road also transported a variety of diseases across the continent, but I would say it brought more good than …show more content…

Some empires would be influenced by sickness brought through their trade networks, but luckily for some, they had the technology to stop it from spreading. Irrigation technology had already been developed in Mesopotamia and Egypt but dissolved out and reappeared again with the Chinese and spread. While disease was helped by getting wasted water out of the cities, there was still a need for water to be safely and easily brought into areas of population. The Archaemedians were the first to recognize a need for water to be easily transported and developed the first water wheels along with Qanats (subterranean system using vertical shafts to transport water). Qanats were used throughout Persia and Egypt and also in some greek areas as the idea spread. Also Greeks had knowledge in bridge building and used that with other technology to develop water bridges and dams to control water in their

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