Chapter 3 focused heavily on the Eurasian State and Empire, but there was one thing in this chapter that really stood out to me the most: The big comparison between the Roman and Chinese Empires.
Based on my readings, I felt that China did a lot better than Rome, because it restored an old empire rather than creating a new one like Rome did. Additionally, it was a lot more independent. In regards of China having a leader, Qin Shihuangdi was an active one who gave out order for China to build the Great Wall, which provided strong defenses for the empire.
Although I still think that China did things better than Rome did, there are also things that both empires had in common. They both had religious traditions (Christianity for Rome, and Buddhism for China), and they also had governments to uphold those empires. Unfortunately, on the religious end, Christianity had dominated Buddhism. Even so, language was still a big part of these two empires.
It is rather unfortunate that these empires had fallen over time since they have lost control with their population, economy, and politics that keep them both alive. With that being said, it has gotten me into thinking about the challenges we are facing in our society today, but I have to ask myself: What exactly are the issues that we are all encountering that are a lot similar to what has happened back when the empires were still around? What are we doing that is different from them? Are we able to avoid facing the same difficulties like the ones from Rome and China? I suppose only time will tell. As far as I know based on my experience with the world, we are already facing some really bad hardships, especially with the economy that we are in right now.
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