Your group will be assigned one of the following empires:

1) Roman
2) Mauryan/Gupta
3) Qin/Han
4) Persian

Your goal is to research your empire and be able to engage in an intelligent comparative discussion about it with other groups about their empires. You must deal with these components of your empire:

• Its techniques of imperial administration
• Its methods of expansion 
• Its intellectual and cultural traditions (including changing belief systems)
• Its social structures
• The reasons for its decline and fall

General Resources for Question Writing:

Developing Questions for Harkness Discussions
Bloom's Taxonomy for Question Writing