Decline+of+Empires.

Notes on the Decline of Empires:

· **During a four century span, all four civilizations collapsed due to outside invasions, the result of growing incursions by groups from Central Asia.** · **Rome declined due to Germanic invaders, who fought on partly because they were in turn, harassed by the fierce Asiatic Huns.** · **The Huns swept across Italy once and caused great damage to Rome, those Huns who invaded India overthrew Gupta rule and the earlier groups that had went through China toppled the Han dynasty.** · **China, India, and Rome suffered from internal problems before they were invaded.** __CHINA__ · //By about 100 C.E, the Han dynasty entered a serious decline. The governing system and class became corrupt and demanded more from the working class who in return had to sacrifice a lot to survive which created a lot of civil unrest. So in this time period Daoism gained group and suddenly appealed to the working class.// · //Spread of epidemics contributed a lot to the decline of the Han dynasty.// · //During the Sui and Tang dynasty, it seemed that China was reviving a little bit.// __INDIA__ · //Many of the warriors were integrated into the warrior caste of India.// · //No one tried to build a larger Indian state.// · //Buddhism declined as Hinduism gained ground since it converted the Hun princes, who previously worshipped gods of battle and had no sympathy for the Buddhism principles of calm and contemplation.// · //Arab armies fighting in the name of Allah reached India’s porous northwestern frontier during the 7th century.// · //Classical traditions survived particularly because and in Hindu and caste systems whereas everything else was eliminated.// __ROME__ · //Involved in internal and external factors.// · //Taxes weren’t affordable and people were either fleeing the country or dying due to poverty.// · //More disruptive than the collapse of the classical dynasties in Asia.// · //Political confusion about who was the successor to the throne and intervention by the army just complicated things more and contributed to the deterioration of from the top.// · //A series of plagues also played a role in the decline of the economic life was burdened since they had no resistance to diseases.// · //Since they were unable to recruit soldiers, they bought Germanic soldiers to protect the frontiers which stressed out the state budget.// · //Land lords gained power while the emperor lost his.// · //The Roman upper-class’s child births were reduced due to it interfering with the party lifestyle.// · //Many peasants welcomed the German barbarians because they were burdened by the social and economic pressure put upon them by the falling empire.// · //Many emperors tried to reverse the doom of the empire but they were never able to return it to its glory days.// · //The empire all together didn’t die, because parts of it survived however, under different conditions.//

