chapter 3

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What common features can you identify in the empires described in this chapter? 

  • Their political regime imposed power and authority.

  • They contained a wide number of people and cultures within a single political structure.

  • They were linked to political and cultural oppression.

  • They were big, violent, and were oppressive.

  • Empires brought together people from different traditions and religions. They stimulated the exchange of ideas, cultures and values. 

  • They imposed peace and security which fostered economic and artistic development, comercial change, and cultural meaning. 

  • They left environmental marks in their establishments

  • They controlled large areas and populations.

  • They were brought together by conquest and funded in part by extracting wealth form conquered people. 

  • They wanted to transcend.

  • They ultimately collapse. 


In what ways did they differ from one another?

  • Expansion

  • the amount of time they had been around

  • In their political system

  • Cultural values

  • They ways of organizing society


What accounts for those differences?

  • These empires were independent. 

  • They were located in different regions.

  • They had different cultures, religion and believes. 

  • Their difference in population.

  • Some of them choose to be rule by local elites while others decided to use a more centralized power structure. 

  • There were new empires and some old ones. 

  • Some empires lasted for considerably longer periods than others.

  • Some empires assimilated conquered peoples more quickly and completely than others.

  • The empires differed in ways such as how they chose to rule; some opted to force those they conquered to assimilate to their culture, others allowed them to stay as long as they paid tribute.



Ways of the World, Robert W. Strayer, Chapter 3

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