1. 1200-1450 Global Tapestry Flashcards
(32 cards)
Champa rice
From Champa Empire
- drought resistant
- can harvest multiple times/ year
- increase food = increase population
Proto-industrialization
regional development of rural handicraft production for external markets
scholar gentry
new social class in Song dynasty
- offcials who entered from cvil service exam
Confucianism
- Philosophy with emphasis on moral integrity, respect for family, and social harmony
- very hierarchical
Women on Confucianism
- no legal rights
- her property = husband’s property
- divorced cannot remarry
- social restricts:
- limited education
- foot binding (also symbol of wealthy)
filial piety
孝, virtue of children obeying and honoring parents, grandparents and ancestors
bureaucracy
A gov entity arranged in a hierarchical fashion that carries out the will of the emperor
Grand Canal
internal trade YAY
Order of dynasty (China)
Song Dynasty
~960-1280
- revived Confucianism –> Neo-Confucianism
- Imperial bureaucracy
civil service examination
- A test taken to enter the bureaucracy (man only)
- based on merit
- allows social mobility
- limited, only the wealthy can afford to study
meritocracy
woodblock printing
tecnological developement in China, spread literature rate and religion
foot binding
symbol of wealth, beauty standard
can’t walk, (don’t need to walk $$, get maids)
Buddhism
- centered on the Four Noble Truths
- live according to Eightfold path
syncretism
the blending of religions
Neo-Confucianism
- Developed during Song dynasty to combat the influences of Buddhism and Daoism in terms of the spiritual aespects
- However, combined certain ideas from B. and D. with ethnics and give interest to bigger population.
Heian period
nuclear families
- parents and their children
- core family
- preferred structure in Vietnam
polygyny
Mamluk Sultanate
Seljuk Turks
sultan
Mongols