The Roman and Han Empires The Roman and the Han Empires were two successful empires that flourished around the same time and began around 200 B.C.E. They had been powerful empires until they began to decline, and eventually were dissipated 400 years after the rise. Although the two empires had many similarities in the way they ran, flourished, and the declination of them, there were also differences in them. When Rome rose up to an empire, they started as a city-state. They began as a small, impoverished city-state in central Italy. Rome had first had to kidnap the neighboring women to keep their population maintained. In 509 B.C.E., they started to become a better place. They had overthrown the monarchy and made their own republic ruled
