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Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative, and transdisciplinary perspectives on imperial state formation prior to the European colonial expansion. Two thousand years ago, up to one-half of the human species was contained within two political systems, the Roman empire in western Eurasia (centered on the Mediterranean Sea) and the Han empire in eastern Eurasia (centered on the great North China Plain). Both empires were broadly comparable in terms of size and population, and even largely coextensive in chronological terms (221 BCE to 220 CE for the Qin/Han empire, c. 200 BCE to 395 CE for the unified Roman empire). At the most basic level of resolution, the circumstances of their creation are not very different. In the East, the Shang and Western Zhou periods created a shared cultural framework for the Warring States, with the gradual consolidation of numerous small polities into a handful of large kingdoms which were finally
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- Author
- Walter Scheidel (editor)
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199758357
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Education, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (16 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Rome and China : Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires (Oxford Studies in Early Empires) (2009)
- Rome and China : Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires (2009)
- Rome and China : Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires (Oxford Studies in Early Empires) (2010)
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