Imperial economies Questionbank

local autonomy

subsistence farming

infrastructure

isolationism

Charity

Interest

Tribute

Investment

It reduces the cost and risk of moving goods, soldiers, and information

It serves primarily as a decorative symbol of the emperor's wealth

It increases the price of raw materials in the provinces

It provides housing for peasant farmers

It allows regions to produce goods based on local resources and exchange them across the empire.

It prevents trade between provinces to avoid competition.

It makes provinces independent and less reliant on the imperial center.

It forces all regions to produce only what the capital city consumes.

It was restricted to the procurement and maintenance of weapons and armor.

It encompassed a wide range of costs, including equipment, salaries, land grants, and frontier logistics.

It was primarily focused on the construction of religious monuments to celebrate victories.

It was limited to the payment of tribute to neighboring states to avoid conflict.

Corruption among provincial tax collectors

The building of new roads to the frontier

Over-taxation of the local population

A rival state targeting key trade routes or resource regions

To encourage citizens to move to rural farms

To provide food for urban populations

To eliminate the need for tax administration

To decrease the power of the ruling dynasty

Natural disasters that disrupt long-distance trade routes

A significant increase in domestic taxation to fund the imperial court

The debasement of currency by the central mint to pay for military costs

Widespread corruption among regional administrative officials

Tribute is framed as a sign of political submission by conquered peoples

Taxes are only collected from the capital city

Taxes are voluntary while tribute is compulsory

Tribute is always paid in standardized coinage

It allows the central government to receive reports on provincial production.

It encourages the use of multiple different currencies across the empire.

It prevents the central administration from monitoring provincial resources.

It allows provinces to set their own independent trade policies.