Which method did rulers in Qin China and Mauryan India use to maintain control of their empires?

A) imposing a common written Language

B) Dividing the empire into smaller independent states

C) Establishing a centralized bureaucracy

D) Forcing subjects to convert to a single religion

c

Explanation:

both governments instituted a single currency and a single system of weights and measures.

these two ruling factions also forced a single written language. forcing the populace into a single system of communication.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

answer: c  

the factory goes out of business, causing the workers to lose their jobs.

explanation: