APWH Ch. 7+9

Niger River Valley Civilizations - Chp. 7 pg. 188

West Africa

DEF = Stateless society (without a centralized ruler or power) that used economic specialization and mutual trade as system of organization, in W. Africa

IMPT = example of historical anomaly in a time where most people lived under central authority.

Political/ Economic

Song Dynasty

China

DEF = 700-1200 CE, use of rice causes population boom —> harnessed into economic productivity in agriculture and industrial spheres; canal system as economic transport.

Sig = Shift in people to paying taxes in currency, cause increased commercialization, increase in money

Economic

Maya civilization 

Civilization in Present day Guatemala and Yucatan Region

250-950CE
Developed mathematical systems, including the concept of zero, place notation, could do complex calculations.

Technological

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Tribute system

China + Trade

Set of practices that required non-Chinese authorities to acknowledge Chinese superiority and their own subordinate place in a Chinese centered world order.

Many times, China would be gifting more valuable gifts than tribute, trying to keep foreign invasion away.

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