At the dawn of the first millennium, Han and Roman attitudes toward technology were both self-aggrandizing; However, the Han Empire in China placed more value on technology and technological improvements than the Roman Empire, as evidenced by the Han dynasty's constant concern with occasional indifference on the part of the Romans. It must be said that every document provided is written by someone from the upper class, giving no insight into what the lower classes or peasants thought about the technology. This gives a very limited view of the different attitudes, as the upper class was not the majority. Additionally, there are no papers from women, leaving the reader guessing what women thought about the technology they were using, how it helped them, or whether all the technology was intended to help men in these patriarchal societies? A document from either of these sources would provide in-depth insight into attitudes toward technology in each nation. The Han's view of technology was primarily self-aggrandizing; It's not for nothing that the Chinese invented everything from paper to acupuncture. The Han seemed to think that technology was meant to help people. As the letter in Document 1 demonstrates, the primary goal of technology is to prevent a disaster, in this case a flood. This demonstrates a concern for people, or at least goods, giving the impression that technology is there to help the Chinese. This impression is reinforced by the obvious concern shown by Huan Guan in the second document, where he writes about the problems that the lack of technology, such as iron plows, poses for the population. Huan Guan points out how technology has become useless while the tools are middle of paper... Roman aqueducts, declaring them better than the pyramids. Can anyone call it a “selfish maniac”? Yet this proud vision of aqueducts comes from a water commissioner for the city of Rome. Of course, he paints aqueducts as the most important thing before sliced ​​bread. His job is to bring water to Rome. Part of its income depends on the fact that aqueducts are wonderful Roman inventions. If he said the aqueducts were bad he would probably lose his job, so his opinion is questionable at best. However, what these documents really show is not so much the divergent views of the Han and Romans towards technology, but rather their differences. opinions towards commoners, towards the poor and unfortunate in their kingdom. Han documents show glimpses of compassion; the Romans show only cold indifference, which raises the question: "Was this really the "Glorious Roman Empire?" » ?”?