• Nature and causes of changes in the world history framework leading up to 1000–1450 as a period:
  Major events which caused change:
  Industrial Revolution in China (Sung dynasty), spread of Sinic world - Neo-Confucianism, schism in Christianity, camels in Sahara, Black Death, Italian Renaissance
   
• Continuities and breaks within the period (e.g., )
  Why do historians think the following events created a new historical period?
  the impact of the Viking raids, the Crusades; Mongolian empires, Mamluk rule in Egypt

2. Interregional networks {MAPS}
Be able to locate on maps three interregional networks of trade: Indian Ocean, Trans-Sahara, Silk Road
 

3. Nature of philosophy and knowledge:
    Which of bullet points on the list below are connected to each other?
    Which of bullet points on the list below are different from each other?

• Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist, Hindu ethics and political theory
   
• Hindu/Indian mathematics, astronomy, medicine
   
• Arabic (Muslim and Jewish) extensions of Greek science and indian mathematics, astronomy, medicine
   
• Latin West scholasticism and Byzantine preservation of Greek culture (Hellenism)
   

  4. China

  China’s internal expansion	China’s external expansion
  The importance of the Song economic revolution:  image of water wheel; paper money; mass production of tea, porcelain, silk; Champa rice	Song navy (use of compass) with ocean-going vessels helped expand trade (abacus and movable type)
  Chinese influence on Japan	Limits of Chinese influence on Japan
  Heian rulers copied Tang government, architecture, allowed Chinese versions of Buddhism, Song Neo-Confucianism; geishas	but no footbinding; then feudalism in Japanese islands as military government (shogun, daimyo, samurai) overpowered aristocracy and emperor

  
   
   

  5. Dar al Islam (Indian Ocean Trading Networks)

  Geographic Centers	Arabian peninsula, Mesopotamian river valleys (Abbassid Caliphate), South Asia (Delhi Sultanate), East Africa, North Africa and Sudanic kingdoms
  Ideology of Empires	The role of Islam as a unifying cultural force
  Political Structures and Significant Leaders	Caliphate Sultanate Mamluks
  Impact of Migrations and Religious Reform Movements	Arab conquests including Iberian peninsula
  Gender Roles	Bedouin/nomadic traditions of women's property and divorce rights;
  The impact of Islam on the arts and sciences	Arabesque design algebra medical advances (Avicenna)

  
   

  6.  Christianity

  Where was Christianity predominate?	Continuities with role of Christianity in previous period?	Changes in role of Christianity in previous period?
  Restructuring of European society (Latin West), including the growth of central monarchies in the west; impact on manoralism and gender roles	Catholic Church had power of sacraments.  Only men could be priests, but women could join religious orders (nunneries).  Church-owned land (and peasants on the land) were not taxed.	divine right of hereditary monarchs Black Death caused Church to lose prestige and feudal bonds to loosen.
  Role of Arab thought in the twelfth-century “Renaissance” in the Latin West	trade helped spread ideas.	Crusades
  The division of Christendom into Eastern and Western Christian cultures (schism:  papacy and patriarchs)

  
   
   
   

  7.

  Non-Islamic Africa	Political Characteristics	Economic Characteristics	Social Characteristics, including gender roles
  Great Zimbabwe

  
   
   

  8. Demographic and environmental changes {MAPS}

  migrations in Afro-Eurasia, 1000 - 1450	Cause of Migration	Impact of  migrations on Afro-Eurasia	Consequences of plague pandemics in the fourteenth century
  Migration of agricultural European peoples to east/central Europe
  the nomadic Arabs
  the nomadic Mongols
  the nomadic Turks

  9. Compare Amerindian civilizations

  Amerindian civilizations - Dates	Economic	Cultural Religious Architectural	Gender Roles	Political Structure; Reason for Collapse
  Olmec
  Maya
  Toltec
  Aztec
  Inca

  10. Diverse interpretations
  What are the issues involved in using cultural areas rather than states as units of analysis?

  What are the sources of change: nomadic migrations versus urban growth?

  Was there a world economic network in this period, and how does it compare with the world economic system that emerges in the next period?
   
   
   
   

  Students Should be Prepared to Compare the Following:

  Name of feudal system, dates of existence	Political Structures	Economic System	Cultural, Religious, Architectural Contribution	Gender Roles
  Latin West (Europe)
  Tokugawa (Japan)

  
   

  Compare political systems	Political Structures similarities? differences?	Economic System similarities? differences?	Cultural, Religious, Architectural  similarities? differences?	Gender Roles similarities? differences?
  Crusader states Prince Henry the Navigator Italian city states
  Ghana Mali  Songhai Kongo

  
   

  Compare Role of  Trade Cities	economic	social, cultural	political role (Who's in charge of the city?)
  Guangzhou (Canton)
  Samarkand
  Timbuktu
  Cairo
  Venice

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