Comparing The Great Ancient Figures Of Ancient China And Rome

PowerPoint Script Introduction Good morning/ afternoon fellow Year Ten students, today I am presenting a presentation on why Ancient History is a great riveting subject to do in your senior years of education. This will be done through the comparison of two great ancient figures of ancient China and Rome. You will learn how the history of the great’s impact the modern society we see today, as Theodore Roosevelt once said ‘the more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future’. (Next slide) Spartacus The first ancient figure I will be talking about hails from Ancient Rome and was one of the great Gladiators of all times. This figure was a Thracian gladiator, little is known about his early life before he became a†¦show more content†¦(Next slide) Rome did not take Spartacus and his slave rebellion seriously, therefore fit line troops were not sent out to fight the rebellion of gladiators and slaves. The Roman armies of four forces that were sent out were outmanoeuvred and easily defeated. Spartacus won another three fights before a new roman military force under the control Marcus Crassus was sent to deal with the rebellious slave army. Eventually after long pursuits of battles, Spartacus was killed near the headwaters of the Siler River in southern Italy, but his body was never found. Crassus then crucified 6,000 rebellious slaves as a warning to others. Qin Shi Huang The next figure I will be introducing is a tyrant ruler from the China Dynasty. His father was the king of the Qin state, and at the age of thirteen his father passed away. He was well educated and at the age of 22, he took full control of his title as king. He had the ambition of wanting to master all the other six Chinese states. This made him the leader of all of china, and eventually he declared himself emperor. His real name was King Zeng. (Ask question to audience) Does anyone know this Emperor? (Next slide) His changed and most commonly used name is Qin Shi Huang; this is literally translated into the phrase ‘First emperor’. At the age of 22, Huang recognised his ambition and built the first feudal and centralized empire in ChineseShow MoreRelatedComparison on the Polybius from Punic Wars and Ssu-ma Chi’en995 Words   |  4 Pagesexisting separately at the southeast of China in Asia and at the core area of Mediterranean in Europe, the Han dynasty and Rome. They have both reached the high point of the contemporary civilizations. Also, they formed their empires by defeating their own hostile forces. There are significant differences between the two great empires in their process of birth, growth and perfection, ruling ideologies and institutions and so on. 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