Post Classical Connections Flashcards
Where did Buddhism spread from?
South to East Asia
What places did Buddhist impact?
China, Japan and others
How did Buddhism interact with other religions?
Cooperated or competed
Most governments at this time where what?
Theocracies: using religion to strengthen their political control
How did Gunpowder and paper cross from China to Europe?
by the Muslims and Mongols using the Silk Road
Why did cities in Russia decline and what arose as a center of collecting tribute?
Mongol’s attacks, Moscow
Constantinople was a thriving commercial city, what happened?
declined due to increasing pressure from the Ottoman Empire
What did Ming China establish as capital and what did it build as a palace for the emperor?
Beijing, Forbidden City
Why did Timbuktu in West Africa become a major city?
trade, Muslim learning in Mali Empire
What happened after Marco Polo crossed the Silk Road from Italy to China in the Late 1200s?
Spent several decades in the court of Kublai Khan (Yuan dynasty) and returned by sea to Europe
Ibn Battuta left Morocco in the early 1300s and may have journeyed 75,000 miles by land and sea to do what?
visiting SW Asia, India, China, and Africa
Margery Kempe in the early 1400s traveled from England to Rome and Jerusalem, what did she do during that time?
She recorded her religious experiences.
Where was the Black plague believed to begin from?
China
Who was it likely diffused by, where, and how?
Pax Mongolica west to Europe, probable carriers were rats/fleas/bacteria
How was the spread like?
In west it gradually spread from SW Asia to southern Europe and to northern Europe in the mid 1300s
