Chapter 4: Eurasian Empires

The Persian Empire was one of the most impressive empires in history. Persians had a kingship. If the king died Persians civilians were known to shave their hair in order to pay respect for the king dying. Persians horses had their manes cut short. Their Empire was a monarchy. In the empires there was spies known to be the "eyes and ears of the king".There was a royal road that was 1,700 miles long the king had messengers and he thought to believe that  with whatever weather it will not prevent the messages to get across with speed and certainty.

The Greeks new civilization came along during  750 B.C.E. The population in this empire was between 2-3 million. That was only a portion of what the Persian empire had.  The Greek civilization was between mountains and valleys which help shape the type of civilization they turned out to be. They had city-states that had about 500-5,000 male civilians. Each city-state did not participate in the conflicts between neighbors. But they had a lot in common they spoke the same language and worshiped some of the same gods. The Greek unlike the Persians took everything to a brother level. Greek settlements where all over the Mediterranean. Settlers brought the Greek culture, language, and building styles to new parts of the world. Unlike the Persians the Greek had a type of "citizenship" which had citizens of the city-states involved politically.

The Roman and Chinese were two empires that didn't know anything about each-other. The Roman Empire threw away the monarchy type of empire and began a republic political type of ruling. In this type of ruling it only meant one thing the rich had complete domination. Written laws only help the lower class from being abused.
The Chinese empire on the other hand they didn't believe in creating a different type of empire but they believed that by bringing back and old style will be the best for them.