Interview With: Liu Bang Han Ruler

“Interview With: Liu Bang Han Ruler”

            How did land expansion benefit you and your country?

            Land expansion benefited our country a lot for multiple reasons. One example of how it benefited, because our army was very powerful. Since it was it could conquer a lot more of our enemies land and we only had room to get bigger and bigger. Also another thing is the Silk Road and its 7,000 miles is a key example of how much land we have and how much we could use to expand and still have enough to use as land for our civilians and civilization. And lastly, since our country was in tact for a good amount of time (202 B.C.E.-220 C.E.) we had a lot of time to plan out attacks if we had the mindset or any. That’s in my opinion why I think we, the Hans benefited from land expansion.

            How did the idea of the Silk Road help your country?

            The Silk Road helped a lot for multiple reasons. One reason was that it helped us send silk and other trade items we had in our civilization and also trade for other items we wanted or needed in order to make our dynasty strong and our people happy with the products we provided to them. Secondly, the silk road helped our civilization learn more about religion because of all the people we traded with there was a vast majority of different religions we learned more of during the trade and its good because it gave us some ideas if we ever decided to change our religion and in other words it would be sort of like a backup. Lastly the Silk Road helped us learn about different culture as well. It did because it helped us learn about the different ways people dress. That’s what I think about the invention of the Silk Road.

            Over the time of your ruling what did you learn?

            I learned that if I wanted a strong, wealthy, and smart civilization I had to make smart decisions. One of the key things that helped us grow and be successful is the Silk Road because it was were most of our major trades were made and it helped us learn a lot because of some of the people we traded with. And also the fact that our civilization was by the water we could make more important trades with countries that were across the ocean. The Silk Road also stretched to India so it helped us trade with countries all around Asia. Some of the most important things we got was food for our people and supplies for their house. That’s what I think I learned during the time of my ruling.