Period 3 Flashcards
What were post-Classical trade networks like compared to the Classical Era?
Deepening and widening of networks of human interaction
- concentration of wealth
- intensification of cross- cultural exchanges
SILK ROADS
What is a pastoral or nomadic group that played a key role in creating and sustaining trade networks? How?
Mongols
What existing trade routes flourished?
Silk Road, Indian Ocean, Trans-Saharan, and Mediterreanean. For the most part, they went from East to West
What new trade routes were added?
Andes, Mesoamerica. They went from North to South, and did not have as much volume due to the absence of the wheel and domesticated animals.
What technologies enabled the growth of inter-regional trade networks?
- more sophisticated caravan organization (caravansarai, camel saddles) (trans-Saharan)
- use of the compass (China), astrolabe (Greco-Roman), larger ship designs (dhow, junk)
- new forms of credit and monetization (bills of exchange, credit, flying money)
What factors encouraged economic growth?
New state practices (minting of coins, use of paper money)
New trading organizations (Hanseatic League) > protected merchants, regulated trade
New stat sponsored commercial infrastructure (Grand Canal) > started by Sui completed by Song
How did the expansion of empires and trade networks affect the relationship between peoples inside vs outside those zones?
Expansion of existing empires (China, Byzantine Empire, Caliphates) New empires (Mongols) facilitated trade and communication as new people we were drawn into their conquerors economies and trade networks > brought security, justice, safety to Silk Roas, taxed, Chinese goods = brought to ME > connected
What were the effects of migration?
Spread of languages, creation of new languages
The expansion and intensification of long-distance trade routes depended on the understanding of environment and technological adaptations.
What are some examples of adaptations?
Vikings using longboats to travel in coastal and open water
Arabs and Berbers adapting camels to travel across Sahara
C. Asian pastoral groups used horses to travel in the steppes
What did the Bantu people bring as they migrated?
Language, small traditions, iron- smelting technology
What are some examples of the environmental effects of migration?
Migration of agricultural Bantu- speaking peoples in forested regions of Sub-Saharan Africa
Maritime migrations of Polynesian peoples, cultivated transplanted foods and domesticated animals as they moved to new islands
What are some examples of the linguistic effects of migration?
Diffusion of new languages, emergence of new ones:
• the spread of Bantu languages
• the new language of Swahili, developed in E African coastal areas
• spread of Turkic and Arabic languages > Muslim merchants
What did trade networks foster?
Cultural diffusion
Why and where did Muslim trade networks change?
Islam expanded from the Arabian Peninsula to many parts of Afro-Eurasia due to military expansion and the activities of merchants and missionaries.
~Islam typically adapted to existing local customs~
• no veil in Mali
What institutions did merchants create to foster trade and cultural diffusion?
Diaspora communities
Who was Ibn Battuta and what did he do?
K
Who was Marco Polo and what did he do?
J
Who was Xuangzang and what did he do?
F
How did post-classical trade affect the diffusion of literary, artistic, and cultural traditions?
Influence of Neo-Confucianism and Buddhism in East Asia
TANG> Korea, Japan, Vietnam
What are some examples of scientific and technological traditions that diffused?
Greek and Indian math on Muslim scholars
Return of Greek science and philosophy to w. Europe via Muslims who preserved and translated
Spread of printing and gunpowder tech from E Asia into Islamic empires and W Europe through ~Silk Road~
What new foods, crops, and agricultural practices diffused?
- Bananas in Africa
- Champa rice in E Asia
- Muslim African Rev (sugar, citrus from trade routes)
What diseases spread via trade routes? What did this cause?
Black Death- from E Asia/ China, 1/3 W Europeans died, ended serfdom, Jews = blamed
How did post-classical states avoid the mistakes of classical empires in the regions where they collapsed?
Reconstituted government, combines sources of power and legitimacy (patriarchy, religion, land- owning elites, Mandate of Heaven) with new innovations (new methods of taxation, tributary systems, adaptation of religious institutions)
Byzantine Empire = built on Rome, Greco-Roman art, ideas, etc. > caesarpapism= head of state and church, after split of church
How and where did governmental diffusion occur?
Persian > Islamic states Chinese traditions (architecture, feng sui, Confucian hierarchy) > Japan
How did states in the Americas develop?
They expanded in scope and reach, wealth and power of elites = those in Afro-Eurasia
What technological and cultural exchanges did states encourage?
Tang China> Abbasids
Mongol empires
Crusades > spread of Islamic ideas
MING AND ZHENG HE
What new innovations affected agriculture in the post-classical era?
Champ rice
Chinampa field systems (floating gardens)> Mesoamericaf
Waru waru raised field cultivation in Andes
Improved terracing techniques
Horse collar > W Europe
3 field system
How did textile and porcelain production develop?
Increased trade = increased wealth
Increased wealth = increased demand for luxury goods
Why did some post- classical urban areas decline while others prospered and grew?
Decline: war, disease, decline in agri productivity
Revival: end of invasions, safe transport, more commerce, more Agri prod and thus pop and labor
How did social and labor systems develop?
- free peasant agriculture > serfs, medieval manors
- nomadic pastoralist > followed animals, feared by settled
- craft production and guilds > protected
- slavery
- gov imposed labor taxes and military obligations> mi’ta> Inca> requires community service