The World: 600 1450

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The World 600 -1450

• Expanding Communities

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Demographic and Environmental Changes

• Nomadic Migrations
• Vikings
• Turks
• Aztecs
• Mongols
• Arabs
• Predict the impact of these movements.

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Demographic and Environmental Changes

• Migration of Agricultural Peoples
• Bantu migrations
• Europeans to Eastern and Central Europe
• Consequences of Disease
• For ex. Black Plague 1348
• Growth and Role of Cities
• Urbanization
• How much of this demonstrates continuity?

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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

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Mediterranean Circuits
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Silk Routes
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Indian Ocean
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Trans-Saharan Trade
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Trans-American trade
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Religious Connections
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Impact of Mongols Blessing or a Curse
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China Internal and External Expansion

• Tang Dynasty
• Technological innovations compass, paper,
  gunpowder etc.
• Influence on Japan
• Footbinding, Neo-Confucianism
• Song Dynasty
• All the makings of an industrial revolution
• Early Ming
• Zheng He voyages, eunochs and nomadic threats

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Islamic World Dar al-Islam

• Expanding cultural, economic and political
  influence
• Al-Andalus/ Islamic Spain
• North and West Africa
• Indian Ocean East Africa, India, SE Asia
• Technological accomplishments astrolabe,
  algebra, philosophy, cartography

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Al-Andalus
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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

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Europe

• Break in eastern and Western Christendom
  political significance?
• Religious schisms compared
• Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholicism
• Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism
• Sunni/ Shiite in Islam

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Europe

• Restructuring of institutions
• Role of religion Papacy, Crusades, architecture
  and education
• Development of feudalism
• Comparison of feudalism in Europe and Japan
• Increasing importance of monarchy over church

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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)

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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

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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?

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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.