AP World Era 3 Key Concept 3.2

Question 1

What collapsed and were reconstituted; in some regions what emerged?
Examples?

Answer 1

Empires; new state forms
Reconstituted governments (Byzantine Empire, Chinese Dynasties (Sui, Tang, Song))
Combined traditional sources of power (patriarchy) and legitimacy with better innovations (new methods of taxation)
New formed governments (Islamic States (Delhi Sultanates), Mongol Khanates, City-states (in the Americas) Decentralized government (feudalism) in Europe and Japan
Some states synthesized local and borrowed traditions (Chinese traditions that influenced states in Japan)

Question 2

What and what between states and empires encouraged significant what and what transfers?
Examples?

Answer 2

Interregional contacts and conflicts; technological and cultural
Between Tang China and Abbasids
Across the Mongol Empires
During the Crusades