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Yellow : Things that are also in flashcards
^^Blue : Thing that I thought might be important / key words^^
==Pink : Important times and their events==
NOTES:
^^Muhammad’s^^ death was in 632
^^Abbasid Caliphate^^ was an Arab dynasty that had ruled the ^^Islamic world^^ in theory if not practice since 750
Abbasid capital was ^^Baghdad^^
Sultan = ruler ( rather than using the turkish word Kaghan )
^^Ottoman^^ Empire was created from a ^^turkish war group^^
Abbasid Caliphate ended in ^^1258^^
==Ottoman Empire conquered Constantinople in 1453==
The Ottoman Empire represented the emergence of the Turks as the dominant people of the Islamic world, ruling now over many Arabs
caliph = successor to the Prophet
==The establishment of Sultanate of Delhi was in 1206==
Sufis = Muslim Holy Men
^^Vijayanagar Empire^^ ( 1336 - 1646 )
al-Andalus = Muslim for Spain
Muslim Spain’s capital was Cordoba
==Abd al-Rahman III ruled from 912 to 961==
==In 1492, when Ferdinand and Isabella, the catholic monarchs of a unified Spain, took Granda, the last Muslim stronghold==
The Spanish monarchy issued a series of edicts outlawing Islam in its various territories
Dar-al and Pan = Across all
Elite = Rich
The Song Dynasty brought Confucianism to China
Poor women were not affected by the input of Confucianism
Chine referred to themselves as the “ Middle Kingdom “
Ethnocentrism = meaning that China felt superior to all other societies and they were the center of the world
Sinification = the extensive adoption of the Chinese culture
Feudalism kept Japan from a centralized Government
Bushido was Japan’s code of Conduct for their citizens
Shintoism = everything has a spirit
The cultural diversity of the Abbasid Caliphate made their government strong
==The Abbasid Caliphates were defeated by the Mongols in 1258==
Islam was the “ Most Extreme “ Monotheistic religion
Hinduism was the “ Most Extreme “ Polytheistic religion
Delhi Sultanate = 5 short lived dynasties whose capitals were centered at Delhi
Islambol = “ full of Islam “
==The Ottoman Empire was from 1299-1922 CE==
Devshirme = tribute of Christian boys who were paid to serve in the Balkan Military
==High Middle Ages ( 1000 - 3000 ) arguably opened the way for an accelerating tempo of economic and social change==
Europeans developed the three-field crop rotation
The Crusades demonstrated a growing European capacity for organization, finance, transportation, and recruitment
Cross-cultural contacts born from crusading opened channels of trade,technology transfer, intellectual change, and it hardened cultural barriers between people
Europeans
cranks
flywheels
camshafts
complex gearing mechanisms
windmills
water mills
provided power for grinding grains
sieving flour
tanning hides
making beer
sawing wood
manufacturing iron
making paper
Byzantine Empire
1085 was the start of the slow downfall of the Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire ended in 1453 when the Turkic Ottoman Empire took over Constantinople
Political:
Roman Taxation System
Roman Military Structures
Roman Centralized Administration
Roman Imperial Court “ Gods Heavenly Court “
Roman Laws
Roman Christian Church
Capital of Constantinople “ New Rome “
Caesaropapism = political system in which the head of the state is also the head of the church and supreme judge in religious matters
Eastern Orthodox Christianity = Legitimated the supreme and absolute authority of the emperor, for her was a God-anointed ruler, a reflection of the glory of God on earth
Orthodox = Right Thinking
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Economic:
Roman Roads
Roman Taxation System
Other Stuff:
Crusades were in 1095 by the Catholic Pope against the forces of Islam
Rus
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Social:
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Monastic tradition that stresses prayer and service
Renaissance:
^^Paris, Bologna, Oxford, Cambridge, and Salamanca became “ zones of intellectual autonomy “ in affect of the Renaissance^^
^^Aristotle^^ laid the foundation of the Scientific revolution due to his human rationalism ideology
==1350-1500 ( roughly ) was the European Renaissance==
The Elite men of the European Renaissance patronized the great artists of the time such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael whose paintings and sculptures were far more naturalistic, particularly in portraying the human body, than those of their Medieval counterparts
^^Renaissance culture reflected the urban bustle and commercial preoccupations of Italian cities. Its secular elements challenged the otherworldliness of Christian culture, and it's individualism signaled the dawning of a more capitalist economy of private entrepreneurs.^^
%%The Reconquista was a prolonged conflict to remove the Moors from the Iberian peninsula%%
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