Han

of the Han and Gupta dynasties, both dynasties made contributions to their country’s basic structure that previous dynasties had damaged. During the 400 year period of the Han dynasty, China’s basic political and intellectual structure had been well rounded out and during the time period of when the Guptas were in power, classical India carried out its greatest period of political stability and both economic and cultural life was able to advance. The political and economic institutions of Han…

period circa 600 B.C.E. to 600 C.E. was significant in imperial expansion and consolidation. Both were extremely prominent in the Roman Empire and Han China. Each region had an effective bureaucracy, large religious influence, and a strong military which promoted imperial expansion and consolidation. An effective bureaucracy played a large role in both Han China and the Roman Empire. Each used their strong government to provision major cities. This meant that both governments were engaged in…

The Han Empire shared many characteristics with the Roman Empire like their government ideology, but also differed in areas including religious influence in the government and government systems and complexity. One of the bigger similarities that the Han Empire and the Roman Empire share are their government ideals. Both government systems are based upon expansionism and had a sense of strong nationalism. Through much expansion, both empires grow to become some of the most powerful nations in…

The falls of Han China and the Roman Empire during 100 C.E. to 500 C.E. are often compared and contrasted. This is well within good reason, because they are both very similar, yet, each have their differences in a wide variety of ways. Outside invaders, outbreaks of disease, and political struggles (Duiker Spielvogel, Essential World History Pg. 127, 128 & 137, 138) are just a few of the many reasons which aided the tragic demises of both empires. A decline in production also played a key role…

Hans Holbein the younger was an extremely dominant figure in German renaissance art and was considered the very best of portrait artists. Hans Holbein aided in evolving German art from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance. Holbein worked in many artistic mediums like portraits and more abstract ones like jewelry and metal work. On the more painting orientated side of things, he was also brilliant at religious history oriented paintings, altarpieces, miniature portraits, illustrations and…

Hans Christian Andersen stories are illustrious to young ones but why? Adults read different versions of his fairy tales to put children to sleep yet, they do not know how strange and disturbing they actually are. Fairy tales are read to kids worldwide because they create situations to inspire infants to be better. However, do you know what horrors lie between the pages of classics? There is no doubt people have heard of The Little Mermaid, The Little Match Girl, and Thumbelina. Does everyone…

Hans Christian Andersen wrote unique, never-seen-before fairy tales, used his vivid imagination to innovate ways to overcome his cynical view of life and the critics who ridiculed his work because of it, and illuminated the face of creativity; forever changing the fairy tale genre. Andersen is world-renowned for his fairy tales. The most famous among his impressive repertoire include “The Ugly Duckling”, “The Princess and the Pea”, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, and “The Little Mermaid”, but…

The common source of inspiration has caused an upward trend in certain genres, uplifting many along the way. Although authors are influences by different muses, Hans Christian Andersen’s original work, “The Little Mermaid”, has become an afflatus to authors whom created versions close to his work. The story of “The Littler Mermaid” by Hans Christian Andersen begins with Ariel, daughter of the Sea King, the youngest of six children. She was the most aesthetically pleasing to the eye amongst the…

Hans Christian Andersen wrote the orignal version of “The Little Mermaid”. It is a very dark and gruesome tale. However, the Grimm’s version of “The Little Mermaid” which was written only a few short years after Andersen’s version was published, is very similar. Both of the stories follow the same plot line, and many of the same things happen each story. The two stories have very few differences. There are very few differences between the two versions of “The Little Mermaid”. One thing that…

Introduction While it is noted that original fairytales tend to be darker and more frightening than recreated versions of the tales, there is a strikingly similar amount of violence and unhappiness within Hans Christian Anderson’s fairytale “The Little Mermaid” and Disney’s reimagining of the same story. At the same time, both fairytales and their reimagining’s are supposed to have a clear message, usually regarding some kind of moral value. Unlike the similar happenings of violence in the two…