Han Dynasty Dbq Analysis

Both the Han dynasty and Roman empire saw the welfare of using technology to help the common people. For example, in Han China government officials gave specific instructions on how to properly establish water conservations to help the common people and save their labor. “I request that you establish water conservation offices in each district and staff them with people who are experienced in the ways of water. There should be one high official and one deputy with just enough workers to meet the need. For the area on both sides of each river select one person as chief hydraulic engineer. Order inspections of the waterways, the walls of the cities and their suburbs, the dikes and rivers…(Doc 1)”. “Tu Shih was appointed governor of Nanyang. He …show more content…
In both documents process for establishing water conservation offices as well as the need for the well being of the common people is instructed. These instructions were aimed at local officials to ensure that the equipment was working and it demonstrated the Han’s importance of technology to solve practical problems. In addition the Han was an agrarian society which means they relied on irrigation and if water was limited it affected their ability to produce crops hence it could result in a decline in trade and malnourishment. In the Roman empire there was an affluent source of water enough for public and private use however, the Romans were conceded and emphasized practical and aesthetic nature of their technology over the Egyptian or Greek. “All the aqueducts reach the city at different elevations. Six of these streams flow into covered containers, where they lose their sediment. Their volume is measured by means of calibrated scales. The abundance of water is sufficient not only for public but for private uses and applications but truly even for pleasure...compare such numerous and indispensable structures carrying so much water with the idle pyramids, or the useless but famous works of Greeks