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The World: 600 -1450
Expanding Communities
Demographic and Environmental Changes
• Nomadic Migrations
VikingsTurksAztecsMongolsArabs
Predict the impact of these movements.
Demographic and Environmental Changes• Migration of Agricultural
PeoplesBantu migrationsEuropeans to Eastern and
Central Europe
• Consequences of Disease For ex. Black Plague 1348
• Growth and Role of CitiesUrbanization
How much of this demonstrates continuity?
Inter-regional networks and Contacts
• Mediterranean trade circuit
• Silk Routes• Indian Ocean
• Trans-Saharan Trade
• Trans-American circuits
• Religious connections: missionaries, inter-religious contact
• Impact of Mongols
Mediterranean Circuits
Silk Routes
Indian Ocean
Trans-Saharan Trade
Trans-American trade
Religious Connections
Impact of Mongols: Blessing or a Curse
China: Internal and External Expansion
• Tang DynastyTechnological innovations:
compass, paper, gunpowder etc.
Influence on JapanFootbinding, Neo-
Confucianism
• Song DynastyAll the makings of an
industrial revolution
• Early MingZheng He voyages,
eunochs and nomadic threats
Islamic World: Dar al-Islam
• Expanding cultural, economic and political influence
Al-Andalus/ Islamic SpainNorth and West AfricaIndian Ocean: East Africa, India,
SE Asia
• Technological accomplishments: astrolabe, algebra, philosophy, cartography…
Al-Andalus
Islamic World: Sample Comparisons
• Compare Islam to Christianity• Compare Islamic contacts with
Europe and with Africa• Crusades- points of view
compared• Compare gender changes • Compare support/ patronage of
arts and sciences
Europe
• Break in eastern and Western Christendom: political significance?
• Religious schisms compared:Eastern Orthodox and Roman
CatholicismMahayana and Theravada
BuddhismSunni/ Shiite in Islam
Europe• Restructuring of
institutionsRole of religion: Papacy,
Crusades, architecture and education
Development of feudalism
Comparison of feudalism in Europe and Japan
Increasing importance of monarchy over church
Amer-Indian World
• Migrations over the Bering Strait at least 10,000 years ago.
• Northern America: Cahokia• Southwest: Hohokam• Meso-America; Olmecs, Maya,
Toltec (Aztec)• South America: Nazca, Moche,
(Inca)
Sub-Saharan Africa• West African kingdoms: Ghana,
Mali, Songhay • East African city states: Axum,
Kilwa, Mombasa• Southern Africa: Great
Zimbabwe• Contacts with Islamic World,
Indian Ocean world, and within Africa
• Role of Trade, Education and Religion
Questions we will focus on:• Was there a world economic
network in this time period?• How did gender roles
change? • How can material culture
and urban history help us to understand early societies?
Conclusions
• Examples of continuity?• Examples of change?
Think about new and old players.
Similar patterns and trends: demographic, social and cultural, technological.
New avenues of intersection.