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• Target 2.2 lists centralization, legal systems,
  bureaucracy, infrastructure, the incorporation of
  conquered peoples, cultural centers like cities,
  patriarchy, social hierarchies, and methods of
  food production all as important ways empires
  centralized their power and imposed unity.
  Choose Three. Describe specific examples of how
  Han China and/or the Roman Empire used these
  methods to exert political control.

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Rome Han China

• Partial Essay

Analyze similarities and differences in the
methods of political control in these two
Classical Period Empires Imperial Rome 31BCE
476 CE and Han China 206 BCE 220 CE.
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• Create a thesis! --- 8 Minutes!
• The thesis must include both a valid similarity
  and a valid difference in methods of political
  control in the two empires. Remember you must
  ALWAYS write about a total of three arguments in
  a comparison essay. (2 sim/1 diff or 1 sim/2
  diff).
• The thesis must be relevant to the time period.
  
• Tips To Know
• The thesis must be explicitly stated in the
  introduction.
• The thesis may appear as one sentence or as
  multiple sentences.
• A thesis that is split among multiple
  paragraphs or merely restates the prompt is
  unacceptable.

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• Thesis Example 1
• Both governments were actively engaged in
  economic activity designed to ensure a stable
  social and political order. Both expanded the
  functions of their government but used different
  government styles to control their populations.

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• Thesis Example 2
• In terms of similarities to gain political
  control, both governments focused on using
  militarism for territorial expansion. Also both
  concentrated on the importance of infrastructure
  to maintain communication. As for the economic
  base, both empires focused on agricultural labor.
  One difference would be Chinas reliance on free
  peasant labor while Rome relied on slave labor to
  prosper economically and to impose political
  control.

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• Thesis Tweak?

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• Create a body paragraph! 12 Minutes!
• So, you have identified three arguments in your
  thesis.
• Choose one to discuss further.
• Introduce the topic in the topic sentence and
  make the comparison (say whether it was a
  similarity or difference and how)
• Give evidence about this sim/diff. Analyze WHY
  HOW that evidence proves your point!
• Close your paragraph with a sentence that mirrors
  the topic sentence and reminds the reader of what
  you just said.

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• Body Paragraph Example 1
• In both Han China and Imperial Rome, they had a
  bureaucracy used to exert political control. Han
  China was more organized, however. To become a
  bureaucrat, one had to go to the Imperial
  Academy, where they would study the ways of
  Confucianism. At the end of all of the time
  spent at the Academy bureaucratic hopefuls take a
  test. If they passed, they would be sent out to
  the country or stay in town and help govern the
  empire. In Rome to become a bureaucrat, all one
  had to do was be a local elite. After Rome would
  conquer a country, they would make sure local
  elites were loyal to Imperial Rome and carry on
  the same as before.

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• Body Paragraph Example 2
• Infrastructure was used by both empires as a
  method of political control. Both empires built
  roads for the military. They used the roads to
  transport the military and supply them with
  goods. One difference in their infrastructure
  was that Rome built aqueducts and used concrete.
  Despite these differences, they were still able
  to use roads to transport and supply goods to the
  military, helping to express the emperors power
  and increasing political control over conquered
  peoples.

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• Body Paragraph Example 3
• One difference these two empires had in methods
  of political control were how they dictated the
  governors for the provinces. Han Chinas way was
  to move people. When they conquered a new land,
  they would send a group of ethnically Han males
  down to the new land and then select a ruler from
  that group. By sending these groups of males out
  across the empire, the people began to look and
  slowly become unified and Han-like. Having
  these provinces also allowed the Han to extract
  new resources. Imperial Romes way to dictate
  the governors of the provinces was to name
  someone from the land the Romans just conquered
  to be governor. This caused only the people in
  Rome to be truly Roman. There was more
  diversity in the Roman empire, but the empire
  wasnt as unified. These methods of political
  control unified Han China, but did not allow the
  Imperial Romans to gain as much unity.

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• Paragraph Tweak?

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• In Han China and Imperial Rome, patriarchy was
  practiced for political control. In Han China,
  the father of a family was highly regarded and
  the state of Han China mirrored that of the
  emperor being a sort of father. In Imperial
  Rome, women were controlled on a very high level
  and kept secluded for most of their adult life so
  there could be no, Whos the father? scenarios
  and could assure wealthy bloodlines staying
  intact. Also, in both empires, male ancestor
  veneration was practiced to show respect to past
  relatives. The home life for women in both
  empires was also very alike in that they were
  kept at home to raise fathers children, while
  the males would handle the outside-of-home work.
  These things unified the civilizations and
  government.