Unit 1 Review

Topic 1.1 Developments in East Asia (1200-1400)

• Technological innovations 

1. Champa Rice

2. Grand Canal (China)

3. Steel/Iron Production

4. Porcelain production

Patriarchal Societies

The Song Dynasty would almost go through an “Industrial Revolution”

Religions: 

• Confucianism

• Buddhism

• Neo-Confucianism (Hybrid combination of Confucianism and Buddhism)

Foot binding would become a common practice during the Song Dynasty

The Confucian ideal of (Filial Piety) would spread in China

Topic 1.2: Developments in Dar-Al-Islam (House of Islam) from 1200-1450

Need To Know: 

 Islamic Empires

• Abbasid Caliphate (Iraq)

• Seljuk Empire (Turkey)

• Mamluks (Egypt)

• Delhi Sultanate (India)

Developments in Mathematics 

• Algebra

• Decimals

• Geometry

Medicine (Avicenna)

Spread of Islam (Spain - Moors; House of Wisdom in Baghdad, Iraq), madrasas 

1.3: South and Southeast Asia (1200-1450)

• Hinduism - Caste system

• Coastal Empires (Srivijaya Empire, Chola kingdoms) TRADE

• Islam - Sufism (and its spread into India and Indonesia)

• Buddhism - Khmer Empire and Southeast Asia

  State Building in the Americas

  • Mayan City States 

  • Mexico

  • El Salvador

  • Guatemala

  • Incan Empire

  • Peru

  • Argentina

  • Bolivia

  • Aztec/Mexica

  • Mexico

  Chinampas (Floating islands of crops)

  Tributary Empire 

  • Cahokia (North America)

  MAJOR Trading post in St. Louis, Missourl

  State Builing in Africa 

  Empires

  • Mali Empire (West Africa)

  • Songhai Empire (West Africa)

  Trans Saharan Trade-  Adopted Islam

  • Great Zimbabwe (South Africa)

  Connected to Indian Ocean Trade Network

  • Ethiopia (East Africa)

  CHRISTIAN Nation.

  Developments in Europe

  Western Europe would start to fragment their countries into several small kingdoms (Decentralization)

  France and England would have the largest kingdoms. (100 Years’ War)

  Byzantines would start to decline

  The Catholic Church would dominate Western Europe

  The Black Death would wreak havoc in Europe, which would bring an end to feudalism in Western Europe. Spread by Fleas.

Comparisons 1200-1450

1. The Islamic world maintained creativity and innovation - despite increased fragmentation. Turkic people were beginning to dominate, especially after the decline of the Mongols

2. The Song Dynasty was also highly creative, innovative, and prosperous - despite being politically weak. THis innovation continued, for a while, under the Mongols.

3. The Christian world was also increasingly creative, mostly due to its intense competition with each other. The Christian was becoming more prosperous due to trade with the east.

4. African states would also develop- especially after the incision of Islam into the region through trade.

5. South/Southeast Asia also developed through Islam via trade. Hinduism and Buddhism would also remain dominant despite Islam.

6. In other words, the Islam Work, while fragmenting and losing political power, was increasing its cultural influence