WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Han China (c. third century BCE to third century CE) and Imperial Rome (c. first century BCE to fifth century CE) both were strong, centrally ruled regimes that expanded geographically, promoted the assimilation of ethnic and linguistic minorities, and provided lasting stability to their respective regions.

Detailed explanation-2: -Both ruled their people under a bureaucracy, they had civil servants to maintain their large empires, and their foundations were made of great and strong rulers. Aside from the similarities they also had several differences. Take China for example, they focused more on Confucianism and they had a Mandate of Heaven.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sino-Roman relations comprised the (primarily indirect) contacts and flows of trade goods, of information, and of occasional travellers between the Roman Empire and the Han Empire of China, as well as between the later Eastern Roman Empire and various Chinese dynasties.

Detailed explanation-4: -Initially just trying to establish knowledge of the other culture, the Chinese and Roman Empires grew substantially in mutual awareness and interaction over the centuries. Eventually, important cultural and economic trading routes known as the Silk Road came to define global interaction between East and West.

Detailed explanation-5: -Society in the Roman Republic was divided into two classes: the wealthy patricians and the general citizenry, called plebians. They could not intermarry. Only male Roman citizens could vote. Slavery was important to the Roman economy.