The West

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The West the Changing World Balance

• Chapter 15

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Fall of Constantinople 1453

• By Ottoman Turks

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Hagia Sophia
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Fall of Abbasid Caliphate
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• Religious leaders rise?rational thought and
  science down
• Peasants lost freedom?agricultural production
  taxes down
• Traders lose high status?reduced dynamis
• Ottomans?military politically more powerful

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Muslim World 1500
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China

• 1368 pushed out Mongols
• Ming Dynasty till 1644
• Reestablished tribute with Korea, Vietnam Tibet

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Cheng Ho/Zheng He 1400-1433
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Changes in the West
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Some of the problems

• Church under attack, lack of unity
• Warriors softened to court life
• 1300s - recurrent famine
• Education was not widespread
• Plague- 1/3 of pop. dies
• Peasant uprisings strikes

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Rise of the West Medieval Vitality

• Feudalism ends, encourages economic growth
• After 100 Years War-Nations became stronger,
  centralized
• New weapons developed stronger armies
• Capitalism grows with the towns

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Rise of the West Medieval Vitality

• Strengthen feudal monarchnational control
• Military organizationnon aristocratic soldiers
  were paid

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Rise of the West Medieval Vitality

• Growth of cities urban economies because of
  commercial trade
• Church at peace with capitalism, this encourages
  even more trade

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The Rise of the West Medieval Vitality

• Technology
• Weapons
• Timekeeping

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International Network

• Mongols provided a link between East West

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International Network

• West consumed Asian luxury goods, spices, silk,
  perfumes and jewels
• Could only offer wool, tin, copper, honey and
  salt
• Unfavorable balance of trade so had to make up in
  gold gold famine and threatened economic
  collapse

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International Network

• Fall of Abbasid Caliphate
• Mongol gave Europeans access to Asian technology
• Ottomans rise in power, scaring Europe
• Explorers looked for alternative route to Asia to
  bypass the Middle East

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Secular Focus of Renaissance

• Changes within Italy
• Humanism
• Bankers fund art
• Innovations in art music

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Iberian Spirit Religious Mission

• 1469 Ferdinand Isabella
• Promote Christianity
• Convert or expel Jews Muslims
• Church run courtsmoral doctrinal purity
• Inquisition

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Polynesian Migration
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Polynesia

• 600-1400s
• Weaved grass for nets
• Imported pigs
• Regional warlike kingdoms
• Caste system
• No written language

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Conclusion

• Ethnocentric approach
• New technology from Asia
• Inward focus of China