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How did trade networks in the post-Classical Era compare to the Classical Era?

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They witnessed greater action

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What functions did these commercial networks serve? (3)

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  1. Conduits for cultural diffusion
  2. Conduits for technological diffusion
  3. Conduits for biological diffusion
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What role did pastoral ad nomadic groiups play in these trade networks?

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They helped sustain the trading networks

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What major religion emerged at the start of this period?

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Islam

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How did Islam spread? (2)

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  1. Trade

2. Warfare

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How did the physical size of post-Classical trade networks compare tot he previous era?

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They were larger and had an increased volume of trade

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What contributed to this increased trade? (2)

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Improvemets in technological and commercial practices

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What Classical era trade networks continued during the post-Classical era? (4)

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Silk Roads
Mediterraean Sea
Trans-Saharan
Indian Ocean basin

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Which new cities were added durig the post-Classical era?

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Timbuktu
Swahili city states
Hangshou
Calicut
Baghdad
Venice
Melaka
Tenochtitlan
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What new trade networks developed in this era? (2)

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Mesoamerica

Andes

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This era experience the growth of interregional trade in what luxury goods?

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Silk
Cotton textiles
Porcelain
Sices
Precious metals
Gems
Slaves
Exotic Animals
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What new technologies enabled the growth of interregional trade networks? (5)

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More sophisticated caravan organization 
Compass
Astrolabe
Larger ship designs
New forms of credit and monetization
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What factors encouraged commercial growth in the post classical era?

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State practices (minting of coins and paper moey)
Trading organizations (Hanseatic League)
State sponsored commercial infrastructures (Grand canal in China)
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What was the Hanseatic League?

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Economic and defensive confederation of free towns in northern Germany and neighboring areas

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What existing empires expanded in this era? (3)

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China
Byzantine
Caliphates

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What new empire arose in this period?

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Mongols

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How did the expansion of empires and traade etworks affect the relationship between peoples inside or outside those zones?

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It facilitated trans-Eurasian trade and communication as new peoples were drawn into their conquerors’ economies ad trade networks

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What were the effects of migration in the post classical era? (2)

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Environmental

Linguistic

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What did the expansion and intesification of long distance trade routes depend on?

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People’s understanding of a particular regional evironment and the subsequent technological adaptations to them

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How did the Scandinavians Vikings adapt?

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They used their longboats to travel in coastal and open water as well as rivers ad estuaries

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How did the Arabs and Berbers adapt?

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They adated camels to travel across ad around the Sahara

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How did the central Asian pastoral groups adapt?

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They used horses to travel in the stepes

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How did the Bantu migration affect the environment?

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By facilitating the transmission of iron technologies in Sub Saharan Africa

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How did the Polynesian peoples affect the environment?

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By cultivating transplanted foods and domestic animals as they moved to new islands

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What were the linguistic affects of migrations?
Diffusion of some languages or the emergence of new languages (spread of Bantu languages including Swahili, spread of Turkic and Arabic languages)
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How did trade networks as a whole develop during this period?
The existing trade networks intensified while there was also the creation of new networks
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Where did Islam develop?
Arabian peninsula
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How did Islam develop?
From the interactions between Jews, Christians, ad Zoroastrians with local peoples
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How did Islam expand?
Military expansion | Activities of merchants and missionaries
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What institutions did merchants create to foster both trade and cultural diffusion?
Diaspora commuities where they itroduced their own cultural traditions into the indigenous culture
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Where did Muslim merchants set up diaspora commuities?
Indian Ocean region
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Where did Chinese merchants set up diaspora commuities?
Southeast Asia
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Where did Sogdian merchants set up diaspora commuities?
Central Asia
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Where did Jews set up diaspora commuities? (3)
Mediterranean Indian Ocean basin Silk Roads
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What do the writigs of interregional travelers such as Ibn Battuta ad Marco Polo illustrate?
Both the extendt and the limitations of intercultural knowledge ad understanding
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How did post classical trade affect the diffusion of leteray, artistic, ad cultural traditions?
It caused it
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How did post classical trade affect the difusion of scientific and technological traditions?
It caused it
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What influenced Muslim scholars? (2)
Greek ad Indian mathematics
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How did Greek sciece and philosophy return to Western Europe?
Via Muslim al-Andalus in Iberia
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Where did the gunpowder (originally from East Asia) spread?
Islamic empires and Western Europe
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What were the biological effects of post classical trade?
Diffusion of crops and pathogens along trade routes
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What new food was adopted in Africa?
Bananas
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What new food was adopted in East Asia?
New rice varieties
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What new foods spread throughout Dar-al Islam and the Mediterranean basin? (3)
Cotton Sugar Citrus
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What disease also spread via post classical trade networks?
Black Death
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How did post classical states aviod the mistakes of classical empires in the regions where classical empires collapsed?
By combining traditional sources of power and legitimacy with innovations bettwer suited to the current circumstances
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Name two examples of reconstituted governments following the collapse of empries?
``` Byzantine China dynasties (Sui, Tang, Song) ```
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What are some sources of power and legitimacy? (3)
Patriarchy Religion Land owing elites
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What are some innovations (3)
New methods of taxation Tributary systems Adaption of religious institutions
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What new forms of governance emerged in the psot calssical era?
Islamic states | Mongol Khanates
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What are examples of the Islamic states the arose in this period? (3)
Abbasids Muslim Iberia Delhi sultanates
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Which traditions did Islamic states synthesize/borrow?
Persia
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Which traditions did Japan synthesize/borrow?
China
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In the Americas, where did city states flourish?
Maya reigons
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In the Americas, where did imperial systems develop? (2)
Mexica (Aztecs) | Inca
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What was a result of interregional conflicts between states and empires?
Technological and cultural transfers
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Across the Mongol empires during the crusades, which empires experienced significant technological and cultural transfers between each other?
Tang China and the Abbasids
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What was an overall worldwide economic trend?
Increase in productivity and production
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Why did agricultural production increase significantly during this period?
Technological innovations
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What new innovations affected agriculture in this era? (5)
``` Champa rice varieties Chinampa field system Waru waru field cultivation in the Andean Improved terracing techniques Horse collar ```
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Crops were transported from their indigenous homelands to where?
Equivalent climates in other regions
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Which states' merchants and artisan expanded their production of textiles and porcelains for export? (3)
China Persia India
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Industrial production of which metals expanded in China?
Iron | Steel
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Why did some post classical urban areas decline? (4)
Invasions Disease Decline of agricultural productivity Little Ice Age
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Why did some post classical urban areas prosper and grow? (7)
``` End of invasions Availability of safe and reliable transport Rise of commerce Warmer temperatures between 800 and 1300 Increased agricultural productivity Subsequent rising population Greater availability of labor ```
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What role did cities play in their societies during this era?
The same role as in the past as governmental, religious, and commercial centers Older cities declined while newer cities took on these established roles
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What pre existing labor systems continued? (7)
``` Free peasant agriculture Nomadic pastoralism Craft production Guild organization Coerced and unfree labor Government imposed labor taxes Military obligations ```
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Continuities in social structures (2)
Patriarchy Shaped largely by class and caste hierarchies
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Where did women exercise more pwer? (4)
Mongols West Africa Japan Southeast Asia
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What and where did new forms of coerced labor appear? (2)
Serfdom -- Europe and Japan Elaboration of the mita -- Inca
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Where did free peasants stage revolts? (2)
China | Byzantine
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Where did the demand for slavery increase?
Central Eurasia Parts of Africa Eastern Mediterranean
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Why did demands of slavery increase?
Military and domestic purposes
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The diffusion of which religions/ideologies led to significant changes in gender relations and family structures? (4)
Buddhism Christianity Islam Neo Confucianism

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