The Han Dynasty in China became a place of socioeconomic status which made those at the bottom of the food chain very upset. They had an extensive test that school could have students take. Those with money who could afford private schools had more opportunities. This system is similar to what we have now in the United States. The rich lead the poor is basically what was happening. The Han Dynasty became more about "the elites" or landlords versus the peasants. This unfair system not only degraded the peasants but the rules and regulations were against them. The conditions made the peasants so unhappy that they had the Yellow Turban movement or rebellion. Daoists believed that they would achieve the "Great Peace" which meant they got to a place of equality among everyone. This equality meant that people were treated equally in the physical and spiritual or in other words social harmony would be present. Although they never made it, it was a noble cause and peasants were later honored for their ideologies.
We think of the Romans as the ones that were advanced in their ruling but in fact, it was the total opposite when it came to slavery. While the Chinese and the Indians had a passive and small slavery group the Romans did things drastically different. Both China and India would only enslave that had broken the law, owed money or were being held in the country because of war. Although this doesn't excuse the want of slaves it is extremely better than what we had in the United States and what the Romans had centuries ago. The Romans were believed to own slaves because it showed your power, otherwise known as your power. Whenever a slave was to be free they weren't treated with all the rights that the people of Rome had. This disgusting method was slightly better in the fact that Romans weren't racist slave owners in comparison to the United States.
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