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    Posted: 25-Apr-2007 at 19:54

Getting little off-topic, kurt.Wink
     
   
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If one compares a map of modern China with Han China, you'll see that Han China is about half of the modern country, as it did not include Tibet, Manchuria, large parts of Xinjiang and Yunnan and Inner Mongolia. That would mean around 4.5 - 5 million square kilometers. The Roman empire at its greatest extent was a little over 5 million square kilometers. As for the population, as some forumers already stated, their populations were between 45 million and 60 million for both. All in all, they were roughly equivalent.
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Originally posted by poirot

Originally posted by Preobrazhenskoe

Han China was to the East like Rome was to the Mediterranean West. Plain and simple. There's just so many parallels between the two that it's comical...well, at least to someone who studies history.
 
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How both empires constantly engaged war with nomadic peoples.
 
How both empires' fortunes plummetted around the year A.D. 180 (both because of a plague)
 
How nomadic peoples later invaded the seat of each empire and built their own empires, taking on the culture and name of each respective empire.
 
 
 
 
Also notable is the paralell development of Christianity in Europe and Buddhism in China.  Although Buddhism was founed centuries before Christianity, it didn't spread to China until later, so its development in China coincided with Christianity's development in Europe.
 
Christianity was introduced into the Roman empire around the 1st century, and the first well recognized, recorded introduction of Buddhism into China was also in the first century.  A key difference, though, is the reaction: the Christians were severely persecuted.  The Buddhists were criticized by the Ru ("Confucians"), but already had some popularity even in the capital city.
 
Both religions rose swiftly after the demise of both empires.  Christianity was legalized around by Constantine, who also moved out of Western Roman Empire, basically marking the end of the old regime (Eastern Roman Empire continued to exist for many centuries.)  Buddhism saw a sudden surge of popularity after the fall of the Han dynasty


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^ Buddhism gained popularity mostly during the Tang, when the Mahayana sect was introduced from India by Bodahiarma...where it combined with Daoism to form Zen-Chan Buddhism
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