The Rise Of The Han Empire By Shi Huangdi

“ Neither the Han nor the Roman empire emerged through a sudden, unexpected revolution”. The Han empire was controlled by Shi Huangdi was a chinese monarch who was awed by his advisors by the scale of his success. while there was also the great empire of Rome that was controlled by Octavian who later went under the new name Augustus who like Shi Huangdi became a monarch both had multiple achievements while rule their empires and both used this titles and justified their actions because of their political power showing “How the builders of the Han and Roman empires conceived and justified their political authority
Starting with the Han empire source 1 of the packet titled “ From Sima Qian” which is a biography that describes Qin Shi Huangdi …show more content…
As it start a quote that describes how he conceives and justifies his political authority is when the text says “ I raised an army by means of which I liberated the Republic, which was oppressed by the tyranny of a faction.” This example shows how he is justifying his political power by saying he liberated the republic to make it seems as he is freeing the people from their ways when a republic and accusing a republic as a bad thing to do that people must be freed from and he should be the only one in charge where as a republic where supreme power is controlled by the people. In addition another example in source 6 is when he says “ I waged many wars throughout the whole world by land and by sea, both civil and foreign and when victorious i spared all citizens who sought pardons” As seen in this example he tries to justify his political power by saying even though he started multiple wars he did a good thing by sparing them.. Source 7 is another list of accomplishments and how the Roman empire went from a republic to a monarchy because of Augustus and how he did great things for them and became the title of imperator. Sources 8, 9 and 10 are visual images showing Augustus in battle and his face on a Roman coin and statue for him these examples so how he felt conquering them helped better them and making his word law making him do what he wanted will better the roman empire. Source 11 describes how he was “Divine Augustus Caesar, son of god, imperator of land and sea the benefactor and saviour of the whole world” which is showing him as a great being who has a sacred power like the Mandate of Heaven because he was a son of a god. Which conceives and justifies his actions of conquering multiple