Themes Foundations – 8,000 B.C.E. - 600 600-1450
Interaction
Impact of interaction Silk Road Crusades
among major societies
(trade, systems of Sub Saharan Trade Route --------> Indian Ocean Trade
international exchange,
war, and diplomacy).
Alexander the Great Mansa Musa pilgrimage
Roman roads in Western Europe. Mongol Raids
Germanic meddlers. Vikings(pillage and rape Europeans)
Islam Unites !
Change &
Changes
Continuity
The relationship of
change and continuity
across the world history
periods covered in this
course
Continuities
Human - -Hunting-gathering to agriculture (Neolithic -Pilgrimage to Mecca
Environment Revolution -Bubonic plague
Impact of technology -Bronze Age (metallurgy) -Mongol invasions
and demography on -River Valley Civilizations -Crusades
people and the environment -crop surplusestrade -Pax Mongolicanew roadstrade
(population growth
and decline, disease, - slash and burn farming -manufacturing (iron, weaponry)
manufacturing, migrations, - Aryans migrations into India - Paper money
agriculture, - Gunpowder
weaponry).
- Viking invasions
-Naval Technology (Compass, Sails, Monsoon
Winds.
Themes Foundations – 8,000 B.C.E. - 600 600-1450
Social
Systems of social Most had a patriarchal society (China, South Feudalism creates social status
structure and gender Asia) Manoralism creates a ascertain area for
structure (comparing
major features within
Chinese foot binding peasants and others.
and among societies and Caste System Caste system
assessing change). Donate a son to monastery (Buddhism) Warriors regarded highly
Women stay indoors Meso-American Ritualistic Sacrifices
Bantu formed social groups Mongolian Women were given more
Roman Christians were at first persecuted, but responsibilities than most women in this time
then highly regarded when it became the Ottomans were accepting of all religions
Empire’s religion within their Empire, but every religion
Greek women’s roles differentiated practiced in lieu of Islam had to pay a tax
throughout the Poli, the Spartan women were
regarded as high for being mothers of warriors
and being remotely strong, as opposed to
Athenian women who were forced to live at
home and raise a family
Culture
Cultural and intellectual
developments and
interactions among and
within societies.
Politics
Changes in functions
and structures of states - Qin unified Chine (empire) - feudalism in Europe
and in attitudes toward
states and political
- Alexander the Great created - Caesaropapism in Byzantine Empire
identities (political Hellenistic Empire - Mayan hereditary nobility
culture), including the - Han China’s central imperial rule/ - Aztecs had no bureaucracy or
emergence of the
administrative bureaucracy administration
nation-state (types of
political organization - SAUCY SEAGULLS!! <3