Chapter

AP* Sixth Edition

World Civilizations The Global Experience

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World Civilizations: The Global Experience, AP* Sixth Edition Stearns • Adas • Schwartz • Gilbert

Asia from 600-1450

6Corresponds to

Ch 12,13,14

1. Big Picture - China

Chapter 2 Review Han fall....

“Chinese Dark Ages” 200s-600s

1. Breakdown of Dynasties & Bureaucracy

2. Yangdi leads Tang, Song - 600s-1200s Resurgence! Huge population growth.... Confucianism and Bureaucracy restored.

3. Mongols! - (Yuan Dynasty) 1200s-1300s

4. Mings! - (Brilliant Dynasty) 1300s through 1600s

Focus on trends, don’t get bogged down by names!

2. Sui/Tang Dynasty 600s-900s • Trade

– Protected Silk Road – Indian Ocean Trade (junks) – Paper $$$ - credit

• Acceptance of Old… Confucianism & Buddhism

• New bureaucrat’s power – Scholar-Gentry - power and

control to exam passers

• Grand Canal – Ag allowed for urbanization

& pop explosion

3. Sui/Tang Fall- New Song, old tune!

• Trade & Grand Canal = Great riches and wealth for emperors of Sui/Tang

• Living lavishly = Losing Mandate = Losing Rebellion

Tang - Royal Mistress Yang Guifel’s. Special favors to her family, pushes rebellion

Sui - Yangdi’s lavish lifestyle along the Grand Canal = Rebellion

4. Song Changes the Tune• Scholar-Gentry (Bureaucrats)

– Continued rise under Song – Military leaders upset

• Over the Wall probs! – N Nomads paid off – Military uninspired to stop

• Neo-Confucians – Confucian thought +

HOSTILITY to outside thoughts/religions…..

• Gains in technology – printing, compass, ship

building, gunpowder

5. Bad music for Women!

• Role of Women – Confinement – Foot binding - OUCH – Mongol women appalled and refuse.

6. Japan• Religion - Similar to Confucianism

– Shintoism = reverence of nature, ancestors, & Confucian ethics

• Political - City-State, Feudalistic fragments – Lords - Bushi - own army and

castles – Knights - Samurai fight for Bushi – Bushido = Chivalry of Samurai

! Seppuku - suicide for losers of battle

7. Wait for it....The Mongols!

Khan and Mongol Kulture!• Central Asia - Mongol Culture - Nomadic Clan

Based – Chinggis Khan - father killed, rival clan kidnaps him,

early learning of brutal Mongol world…kills brother! – Leaders elected by men! - Democratic?!

8. Mongol Rise and Expand in

Mongol Attack!!! All Cavalry - World Best! Cavalry front to draw out Flank and destroy Deadly arrows and lances!

MongolsFlank

Flank

Mongols Learn Take Technology & Use

-catapult, gunpowder, cannons, flaming arrows, rams

Mongol Russia - Golden Horde Control for 200 years Hard on people forced to pay Mongol Tribute - Serfdom + Cuts Russia from Renaissance.

The Ilkhanate Destruction of Islamic Dynasties - Baghdad- 800,000 dead -Short lived, but creates power vacuum…Turks to replace Mongol rule

9. Mongol Conquering! 1200-1400s

China Yuan 80 yrs -Mongol/Chinese segregation = resentment -Scholar-Gentry - Merchants.

Could tax! - Open trade - Open religions

Longest

Shortest

Middle

10. 3 Ts of Mongol Rule• 1. Tolerance - religion, culture • 2. Trade - opened trade routes

connecting world to trade & disease! • 3. Teaching - Chinese, Muslims, Indians

learn from each other under Mongol control – Muslims learning spreads- medicine, hospitals – Chinese innovation spreads - silk, gunpowder,

steel, etc. – “Smaller” more interconnected world

• Ming “Bright” Dynasty 1368 – Perception of Mongols losing Mandate

– Plague + Famine + Foreigners = Fuel for Peasants – Peasant Revolt Leaders - The Mings

– Goal #1 - Finish the Wall - Mongols never again – Goal #2 - Show our Brightness! – Admiral Zheng He’s Junk Expeditions ! Fine “China,” metals, and silk to West.

– Ventures end in 1430s • WHY? 30 years of success + nomadic pressures + costs = END

11. Chinese Back - They Build, They Venture & Pull Back