Women were expected to excel in four areas: fidelity, cautious speech, industriousness, and graceful manners. A woman's virtue was a particularly valued attribute in Chinese society.
Mao Zedong united the food production, trade, and transportation systems of China, and abolished almost all the political divisions. This allowed the country to benefit from its power of production and further expand its industrial base, without competition from either within China or from other nations. Although accredited with establishing China as a stable, industrialized, unified state, Mao only did so by imposing complete cultural and political control over China's citizens.
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The Mediterranean is a centralized location between Europe and Asia, making it very easy to trade as well as travel far to spread their influence with the exception of certain geographical barriers around places like China and India, making their influence not as available. Rome's location was key to being able to grow into the prosperous Empire remembered today.