Ap World History Dbq Essay

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Documents Essay The Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire have different outlooks on technology. The Han Dynasty view technology as something used to ease the workload of people, while the Roman Empire views certain technology as needed. In the Han documents, the government official and the philosopher explained how technology and inventions were very useful and beneficial to the people. The government official suggested having water conservation officers in each district to “supply enough workers to those who are to carry out the repair work in each district”. (doc 1) Some inventions or ideas were “crude and not very functional” (doc 2) opposed to “improved” and to have “great benefit”. (doc 4) Due to the high price of some crude tools that did not really make the workload any easier, people became poor and were forced to “till the soil with wooden plows” and also were not able to “afford salt to season their food”. (doc 2) Huan Tan says in his document that Fuxi, “a mythological wise emperor”, created mortar and pestle. Over the years, upgrades were made which helped increase benefit. (doc 3) The attitude Han shows is both positive and negative because the people will either agree or disagree with some of the inventions made. Roman attitude towards technology was characterized to show off their power rather than simpler innovations. Technology in Rome was limited and not all that interesting, The only technology that interested them was improved weapons. No reason to improve led to a decline in their society. Some believed when Rome could not expand anymore, their culture and society died. The upper-class Roman political leader, Cicero, said that men have been taught vulgar and unbecoming to a man are all the jobs hired, but “no workshop can have anything enlightening about it”. (doc 5) In document 6, the Roman citizen (also the high official) did not mention
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