Compare the systems of governance in the Middle Eastern–Assyrian and Persian–and Chinese–Qin and Han–empires, using the ancient Chinese categories, “Confucian” and “Legalist”. Can you identify a pattern in how the Assyrian and Persian, and later Qin and Han empires adopted Confucian or Legalistic features? Use the textbook as well as Xenophon’s Cyropaedia for evidence of the Persian social structure and system of governance.
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