The five branches of the military started on June 14th, 1775. The military has been around for hundreds of years giving America hope and security and heartbreak. Men and women in the military are some of the strongest humans on earth. They risk their lives daily to be able to serve their country and to serve to support their families. When many people think about the military, they think of control and power because military members have to go through hours, days, and months of training to protect their country. Since the military is so powerful, the government gives them extra control over society, especially in ancient China, when the government would give the military control over the money society used. The transformation between the ruling of China by the Emperors and the ruling from the military changed China completely in the way society ran and in how China grew as a…show more content… She starts off the book by talking about how a foreigner who would visit China would be in shock at the amount of Chinese people in China. She says that Americans who visit would be asking multiple questions like “Why haven’t differences in dialect, religion, or way of life led them to divide up into mutually suspicious groups in the way of so much of the rest of the world? How can a single government cope with ruling so many people?” (Ebrey 7). She is saying we as Americans would ask all of these questions because we would be seeing that the society and government of China is working together, even though they have thousands upon thousands more of people in China than in the United States. Ebrey does not just say that we would be shocked at the amount of people in the country though; she says we would not believe the landscape of China because it is very different than America. She
