AP WORLD HISTORY

PART 3AN AGE OF ACCELERATING CONNECTIONS

600-1500

TRADE

• DISCUSS WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW!• 5 W’S• IMPORTANCE!

Big Picture ?sDiscussion time.

1. Do cultural areas, as opposed to states and empires, better represent history?– Cultural areas are those that share a common

culture.– Respect for geographical limitations not followed

2. How does change occur within societies?

• Trading• Migrations• Invasions• Why are people moving around?• Impact?• Change occurs because of internal

developments no external influences.

3. How similar were the economic and trading practices that developed across cultures?

• Monetary Systems• Trade Routes• Trade Practices• How do they link up?

4.How does the environment impact human decision making?

• How do states respond to environmental changes?

• Do they move or send out raiding parties?• Are they able to respond quickly and

successfully to environmental changes?

Review of History Within Civilizations 600 CE-1450

• Classical Period collapses• Long distance trade increases– Caravans of Silk routes– Multi-ethnic Indian Ocean sailors– Trips across Sahara to West Africa– Trade in Mediterranean

• Decentralization of Western Europe• Expansion of trading empires of Middle East

and China

Developments in Asia• 3 Major dynasties

– Tang, Song, Ming

• Developed Golden Ages• Influenced

– Korea– Vietnam– Cambodia

Tang(618-907 AD)• Emperor Xuanzong

– Bureaucratic system (merit, civil service exams)– Military garrisons along trade routes and capital Xi’an– Tribute system (territories sent ambassadors and gifts “kowtow”)

• Expanded into Manchuria, Mongolia, Tibet, Korea• Golden Age

– age of Buddhism– Footbinding– woodblock printing– Gunpowder– Paper Money– Magnetic compass– Poetry tells of daily life

• Economy– Paper money– Letters of credit (flying cash)

• Increased trade and cultural diffusion

• Local warlords gained power and dynasty collapsed– Uighurs (nomadic Turks brought in the stop rebellions but eventually became attackers)

Song (960-1279 AD)

• Song Taizu– Used army and consolidated China

• Similar rule as Tang• Capital in southern portion, Hangzhou• Wealth base on powerful navy and International trade• Golden Age

– Moveable type (increased literacy)– Porcelain– Gunpowder used for military– Magnetic compass– Watertight bulkheads– Sternpost rudders for junks (merchant/battleships)– Iron production increased– Produced steel using water-driven-bellows to produce needed temp.– Introduction of champa RICE from Vietnam=population increase (115 million in 1200)

• Peasant Rebellions and Mongols led to fall of dynasty

Ming

• 1368-1644• Zhu Yuanzhang

– Red turban rebellion against Mongols– Ended corruption and reestablished an authoritarian gov’t

bureaucracy using eunuchs• Chengzu (son)

– Imperial Palace (Forbidden City) constructed in Beijing (1406-1421)

• Golden Age– Focused on Chinese culture– Zheng He

• Sea expeditons led to increased trade• Fortified Great Wall• Expanded Canal System

Religion• Nestorianism

– Christianity w/difference based on holy trinity• Manicheans

– Persian founder Mani used cosmology to explain conflict between light and dark, good or evil

• Zoroastrianism– Persian

• Islam• Buddhism

– Mahayana: nirvana can be attained through faith alone– Chan/Zen: school of mahayana based on meditation and Dharma

• Confucianism– Neo-Confucianism: Zhu Xi adapted Buddhist concepts to Confucian

values. Expanded into Vietnam, Korea and Japan• Doaism

Women

• Confucian=subordinate• Under Tang: – Empress Wu Zhoa took over after husband’s

death. – Considered fair-minded.

• Footbinding– Strengthened Confucian ideas

Korea

• Silla Dynasty– 668-935– Unified Korea– Vassal state of Tang 7th century– Adopted Confucian values

• Koryo Dynasty– 935-1392– Copied chinese civil service exams– Bureaucracy– Slavery

• Choson/Yi Dynasty– 1392-1910– Established after Mongols left

• Hermit Kingdom• 19th century term used for its

closed door policy for foreigners

• Cultural bridge btwn. China and Japan

Vietnam

• North subdued by Tang• South rebelled• Both absorbed agricultural

ideas, schools of thought, and irrigation techniques.

• Maintained indigenous religions

• Women more active in society

Japan• 4 main islands: isolation• Influenced by Korea and China• Yamato Clan– 5th century– First and only dynasty– Direct descendent of Amaterasu Shinto sun goddess– Prince Shotoku

• Taika Reforms– Borrowed ideas on gov’t from Tang– Rejected confucianism– Grand Council of State –administrative districts

– Heian Period• Fujiwara Family • Ruled Japan 794 after Shotoku’s death• Golden Age

– Lady Murasaki Tale of the Genji

Feudal Japan

• Developed same time as in Europe• Kamakura Shogunate

– 1192 Yoritomo Minamoto– Bakufu “Tent” system of gov’t– Shogun chief general– Daimyo (powerful land owners– Samurai (warrior/nobility)– Bushido (code of Behavior)

• Zen Buddhism• Loyalty, courage, honor• Women were not held in high esteem, could not learn chinese

• Kyoto Shogunate– 1333 Ashikaga– Onin War 1467-1477 threatened unity– Samurai gained immense respect-carry weapons and have last names

Europe Periodization

Early Middle Ages: 500 – 1000

High Middle Ages: 1000 – 1250

Late Middle Ages: 1250 - 1500

Europe

• Dark Ages (476 AD -800)– End of Roman Rule in western Europe– Rise of Tribes (Franks, Saxons, vikings)– no books– no learning/education

• Preserved by monks and muslims– no government– no common language– no unity

Europe 6th century

Middle Ages (800-1300)• 3 C’s (Clovis, Charles Martel, Charlemagne)• Feudalism

– fiefdom= system of loyalties– Manorialism-self sufficient estate– Chivalry-code of conduct

• Church-most powerful institution– political-economic-social organization

– controlled about 1/3 of the land in Western Europe.

– tried to curb feudal warfare • only 40 days a year for combat.

– curb heresies • Crusades• Inquisition

– tithe • 1/10 tax on your assets given to

the church.

– Holy Roman Empire

Treaty of Verdun 843

FeudalismA political, economic, and social system based on loyalty and military service.

Carcassonne: A Medieval Castle

Parts of a Medieval Castle

The Medieval Manor

The Rise of European Monarchies: England

William the Conqueror:Battle of Hastings, 1066

(Bayeaux Tapestry

• Henry I:o William’s son.

o set up a court system.

o Exchequer - dept. of royal finances

• Henry II:o established the principle of common law

throughout the kingdom.

o grand jury.

o trial by jury.

Magna Carta, 1215

• King John I

• “Great Charter”

• monarchs were not above the law.

• kings had to consult a council of advisors.

• kings could not tax arbitrarily.

The Beginnings of the British Parliament• Great Council:

o middle class merchants, townspeople [burgesses in Eng., bourgeoisie in Fr., burghers in Ger.] were added at the end of the 13c.

o eventually called Parliament.

o by 1400, two chambers evolved:

o House of Lords = nobles & clergy.

o House of Commons = knights and burgesses.

The Rise of European Monarchies: France

• Capetians – 987 Hugh Capet selected

after death of last Carolingian emperor.

– Controlled Normandy, Brittany, Burgundy, Aquitaine

– 1066 William of Normandy conquered England bringing territory with him. (Angevin Kingdom) –Hiundred Years’ War

Holy Roman Empire• 800 Charlemagne 1st HRE

– Saxons convert or be killed– Saxon King Widukind converted 785

• 962 Otto I proclaimed Holy Roman Emperor by Pope

• Tensions between Pope and Emperor• 1075 Investiture Contest Controversy

– Pope Gregory VII excommunicated Henry IV for attempting to name bishops

• 1122 Concordat of Worms– Pope chooses spiritual leaders, Emperor chooses

political leaders

• Voltaire “neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire”– Secular German group of states

• 1176 Frederick Barbarossa– Tried to enlarge empire through northern Italy

• 1220-1250: Frederick II– King of Italy and German States– Promoted arts and science

Italy• Controlled by Lombards• 773 Charlemagne took over

Italy• Otto I combined Italy and

Germany making HRE• 10th Century rise of City-States

– Burghers rose in power• Trade with Muslims• Crusades• Banking Centers• Medici family• Venice + Genoa important cities

• Agricultural Revolution (after 900)– New inventions (harness for horses,3 field system,

moldboard plow)– More food =more people= more trade routes = fairs

=towns• Crusades-Holy Wars (1095- 1270) resulted in increased:– Trade, cultural diffusion, knowledge

• Commercial Revolution(1500s)– New business practices (checks, banks)– Capital = $ exchanged instead of bartering– end of feudalism– Important trade cities (Venice, Hanseatic League)

Pope Urban II: Preaching a Crusade

Setting Out on Crusade

Christian Crusades: East and West

Medieval Guilds

Guild Hall

• Commercial Monopoly:

o Controlled membership apprentice journeyman master craftsman

o Controlled quality of the product [masterpiece].

o Controlled prices

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Medieval Guilds: A Goldsmith’s Shop

Crest of a Cooper’s Guild

• 1348 Bubonic Plague– trade declined– church lost power– 1/3 population died

• Hundred Years’ War 1337-1453– War between France and Britain over land

• Thirty Years’ War 1618-1648– Between German Princes and Holy Roman Empire over

religion– Treaty of Westphalia brought peace

Europe-> Renaissance (1300-1650)• Rebirth of Classics

– Greek and Roman– Golden Age

• Begins in Italy b/c of:– Crusades– urban centers– wealthy merchants– humanism= focus on human achievements not just religion– Art focus=realism– Artists:

• Michelangelo, da Vinci-most famous

– Writers:• Machiavelli-The Prince (end justifies the means) rulers should do

anything to gain and keep power.• Johannes Gutenberg-printing press-#books increase, vernacular, spread

of ideas.

Medieval Universities

• Arose 11th century– Bologna, Paris, Oxford

• 1st in Paris• Students subject to Church (town

vs gown)• Granted charters • Studied art, law, medicine,

theology– Received degree in levels

• Bachelor• Master• Doctorate

– Daily life equivalent to monastic life

Oxford University

Late Medieval Town Dwellings

Byzantine Empire395-1453

• Extension of Roman Empire– 313 Christianity Accepted– 330 Constantine converts– (Greco-Roman heritage)

• Used Greek language• Domes in architecture

• Constantinople– capital of Eastern Empire– Protected by water + walls– Major trading power (Western Europe-Arab empire)

• Emperors– Ruled with absolute authority

• Economy (monopolized Silk production taken from China)– Coined money

• Justinian and Theodora (527-565)– Rivaled Islamic Baghdad– code of laws

• Kept ancient Roman legal principles alive– Hagia Sophia

• Flowering of arts, sciences and architecture• Mosaic art

– Tried to reunite east +west failed due to plague• Orthodox Christianity– Secular rulers headed Church– Disagreements on:

• Sacrament of communion, priests allowed to marry, use of vernacular in church, placement of icons, pope vs patriarch

Fall of Byzantine Empire

• Arab groups overran territory– Turks migrated to Anatolia– Osman • built empire out of Byzantine territories• Controlled Balkans

• 1453 Constantinople captured by Ottoman Turks– Mehmud the Conqueror

Shaped developing cultures of Russia and Eastern Europe.

• Byzantine Missionaries converted Russia and Slavic people– Cyril and Methodious: alphabet

• 957 Queen Olga converted• King Vladimir

– Converted and ordered thousands to be baptized in the Dnieper River

• Russian Orthodox– Alligned w/Byzantine

• 1272 Fall to the Tartars=Mongols– 1400s Ivan III expands territory + declared himself czar

Middle East• Crossroads of the World (Europe, Africa, Asia)

• Cultural diffusion-> Trade

• Preserved ancient writings of Greeks and Romans

• Islam

Rise of Islam• Mid 600s• Monotheistic• Muslims• Mohammad• Qu’ran• 5 Pillars• Jihad “to struggle”• Accepts Abraham, Moses and Jesus• 2 groups

– Shiite vs Sunni• Sunni: “people who follow the Sunna (way of the prophet)” caliph should be good person• Shiite/Shia: caliphite must go to a descendent

Empire grows as Religion Splits

• 632 Mohammad dies• Capital Mecca• First 4 Caliphs– Abu Bakr –caliph-theocracy-caliphate– Umar– Uthan– Ali –assassinated and son Hasan gives power over

to Umayyads

• Umayyads – Capital Damascus, Syria– Sunni– Gold and silver coins standard monetary unit– Expanded empire from northern Africa to Spain

• Conversion “encouraged” taxed if not

– Tried to go further into Europe from west and east.– Official language of government– Built Dome of the Rock– Defeated by forces of Abu al-Abbas and replaced by

Abbasid Dynasty around 750

Abbasid Dynasty 750-1258

– Shiite Muslims– Baghdad (capital)– Trade increased

• Location prime for trade• Defeated Tang Chinese 751 over trading post on Silk Road

– Pows carrying paper- Abbasids figured out how to make paper• Introduced Credit• Itemized receipts and bills

– Golden Age• Production of steel (swords)• Mohammad al-Razi published medical encyclopedia• Algebra• Libraries and universities

– Expanded into Levant (Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon)– Sufis

• Islamic mystics/missionaries• Made Islam adaptable for others led to conversions

Turks• Seljuk Turks

– Nomadic warriors from the central Asian Steppes– Hired by Muslim leaders as mercenaries– 1055 Captured Baghdad/Abbasssid Dynasty– 1071 defeated took Anatolia (Turkey) from Byzantine Empire– 1258 conquered by Hulegu (Kublai Khan’s brother)

• Many converted to Islam

• 1206-1526 Delhi Sultanate– Afghan turks– Non-muslims taxed– Destruction of Hindu temples– Colleges founded– Irrigation improved– Destroyed by Mongols

Women and Islam

• Women = Property– No divorce (husband can keep dowry)– No property– Female infanticide– QU’RAN (651-652)• Subservient, treated with more dignity, some legal

rights, equal before Allah, divorce/return dowry, infanticide forbidden• Men/4 wives, property passed through men, women=

½ in court, restriction on what they wore

Decline in Islamic Caliphates

• Internal Rivalries– Differences between Shi and Sunni sects– Ethnic groups

• Turkish slaves/mamluks revolted set up capital in Samarra Iraq• Shia group in northern Iran• Sunni Seljuk Turks

– Destabalized central authority in Baghdad and cut tax revenues

• Mongol Invasions– 1258 destroyed Baghdad ending Abbasid Dynasty

• Ottoman Turks– Reunited Egypt, Syria and Arabia

The Mongols• Ghengis Khan: Temujin (1167-1227)

– 1234 conquered lands throughout China• Empire spanned from Pacific Ocean to eastern Europe• Karakorum-capital• Steppe diplomacy• “Submit and live. Resist and die.”

– 1st Pony Express + postal system– Tax breaks for teachers + clerics– Spilt into hordes (small independent empires)/4 regions

• Khanate of the Golden Horde (Tartars)• Batu (grandson) controlled most of Russia

– Vasaal state– Locals collected taxes

• Khanate of Changatai: Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)• Kublai Khan (grandson)

– Pax Mongolia: guarded trade routes (Silk Road)– Foreigner emplolyed in bureaucracy, civil service not used– Marco Polo

• Ilkhanate of Persia (Hulegu: Kublai’s brother)– Persia-Baghdad: stopped in Syria by Egyptian forces

• Timur Lang (1370)– Aka Tamerlane– Ghengis Khan = role model– Capital Samarkand– Conquered parts of India

Impact of Mongols

• Diffusers of culture– Assimilated with some conquered cultures– Chinese were not allowed to Mongolize– Increased world trade

• Protected Silk Road• Welcomed missionaries + merchants

– By 1450 well into decline• 1260 Mamluks (Egyptian slave dynasty) stopped Mongols

from moving into Africa• 1274 + 1281 tried to invade Japan

– Kamikaze

• West Africa– Land of Gold– Ghana (500s-1200)

• Trans-Saharan Trade• Commercial site• Traded gold (from south) controlled and taxed in return for salt,

ivory, slaves, horses, cloth• Large army funded by tax on trade• Merchants-Islam• 1000 CE under assault from northen Berbers, eventually

absorbed by Mali

– Mali (1230s-1433 CE)• Sundiata (ruler + Epic story)• Mansa Musa (1312-1337)

– Devout Muslim: hajj = cultural diffussion– Timbuktu: political capital,center for education, religion, culture

• After 1350 provinces broke away for independence

East Africa• Indian Ocean trade

• Coast settled by Bantu• Swahili City-states emerged

– Governed by Kings-converted to Islam– Mogadishu– Kilwa– Sofala

• Traded gold, slaves, ivory for pottery, glass and textiles from Persia, India and China.• 1100-1450 Zimbabwe (Changamire)

– Rose from Shona people (gold, glass beads, bronze+ iron)– Great Zimbabwe

Great Zimbabwe

TravelersIbn Battuta1304-1369

Marco Polo1253-1324

Rabban Sauma1225-1294

Background Muslim Scholar from morocco

Merchant from Venice Nestorian Christian priest from Mongol Empire in China

Places Traveled Dar al-Islam, West Africa, India, Southeast Asia

Silk Road Pilgrimage from Beijing to Jerusalem.Sent to France and England to meet with Pope and Kings on alliance against Muslims by Persian Mongol King Ilkhan

Significance Demonstrated widespread of Islam.Government positions as a qadi or judge in lands travelled.

Employed by Kublai Khan oversaw mercantile and domestic missions in empire

Did not get support.

What else is going on?

• South America– 1000 Chimor/Chimu along Peruvian Coast• Thriving agriculture• Overrun by Incas late 1400s

• Oceania:• Trade networks did not emerge due to distance.• Long voyages introduced sweet potato to islands• Agricultural and fishing socieites• Islands differed in culture