The Misian Empire: The Persian Empire

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The Persian Empire was created in 546 BCE by Cyrus the Great after he defeated and conquered Media and Lydias. The Persian Empire is a very diverse empire with the official language of Farsi Fars. With such a huge empire, they had to know how to control their people so that there is not a revolution. There were two ideas to control the people; the empire could keep them (the people) weak. This will lead to the people not having enough resources, which will make the civilians desperate and can trigger a revolution. Though since this can lead to many downfalls, the Persian Empire decided, to control the people, in a “peaceful” way… well compared to the other way. They allowed to keep their own culture and most of their constructions, except they are taxed. The empire also has Satraps, divided into different sections of the empire to make …show more content…

This is when the empire started. Just like the Persian Empire, the Chinese Empire did government projects in the beginning while it was under the Qin dynasty. He made a unified system of weights, measures, axial length, and standardized written Chinese characters. These were made to make all different kinds of writings easier to understand, which leads to an easier time to make records. These were really intended for tax purposes, but was very appreciated by everyone. To add to this, the Chinese Empire had projects, a more well-known one is the Great Wall of China. The wall was created to protect the people from outside invaders and took an immensely long time to finish. Unfortunately, even though the wall was created to protect the Chinese, many of the citizens died while making this wall along with another project called the Terracotta Warriors Tomb. This was made, not for the citizens, but for Qin Shihuangdi, after his

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