Han China Dbq

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Han China encouraged the innovation of technology, they understood its need in order to better the lives of its people, they used it in a variety of ways and felt it was a positive step towards progress. Rome felt that innovation and new technology was not necessary and treated it as something to be used in limited situations they found it was on unneeded addition to their society and with little respect.
Based on the first three documents Han China's officials recognized the usefulness of technology and the ways that it could assess its citizens the official saw the correlation between tool quality and the type of labor used to produce whatever tool iron tools and one case Rome based on documents four, five and six all seem to paint the Roman

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