Ap World History Curriculum Framework Questions

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In what way do we see the expansion of the winding Empire (or the Muslim Caliphates) facilitating Trans-Eurasian spate & communication? answer give examples of conquered quite a weensy being drawn into their conquerors economies & trade networks) * Byzantine Empire use of the gold coin, the bezant, facilitated trade and communication by creating a standard currency by which all peoples could expect to trade with Balkan Slavic peoples came under Byzantine approach pattern and was drawn into the trade network became trading partners with new(prenominal) towns that were smaller in size such as Florence of Italy, facilitating long-distance trade * Muslim Caliphates everywhere, at that place was a huge incentive to convert to Islam because of the massive trade theater of operations that was created as a result of the religion in various countries, Muslim religion provided links for trading partners (such as in West Africa) when Moslem empire conquered India, invigorated products were introduced (crops) which posterior spread into Africa and Uerope 2. What examples do you see of cross-cultural interactions resulting in the diffusion of scientific & technological traditions? Byzantine Empire when china finally opened its doors, m whatever atomic number 63ans such as Marco Polo visited there and impris angiotensin converting enzymed many ideas about Chinese culture, writing about them and eventually transport those ideas back to Europe * Muslim Caliphates Greek thinking (science and medical texts, as well as philosophy) contri provideded towards Arab scholarship, and its thinking about the natural sciences and philosophy 3. by-line the collapse of empires (most notably Roman), the Byzantine Empire constituted a bran-new government. Give examples of the way that traditional sources of power & legitimacy combined with innovations in governance to produce a govt better suited to its tidy sum (ie patriarchy, religion, or land-owning elites combin ing with new methods of taxation, tributary carcasss, or adaptation of apparitional institutions). Byzantine Empire it kept up(p) a Roman style of alter imperial court that was based in Constantinople it set up a caesaropapism where the emperor was both the head of the assert as well as the head of the church as appointed by God maintained many social transcriptions such as taxation and the church in the 11-13th centuries, there was a leap in urbanization and economic growth, which direct to many new chances for women to leave their domestic breedingstyles to seek more urban professions * Western Europe the Roman Catholic Church was separate from the state the pope held religious post magical spell the emperor headed the state system of feudalism ensured loyalty in the chaos-ridden world of that time * China centralized, unmarried cities landowners were given privileges by the government earlier than merchants, as merchants were viewed as inert people who gained pr ofit through the works of others 4. Do you see any examples of innovations in agriculture or industrial deed? ie extraneous luxury goods & crops like sugar & citrus being grown in new regions) * Byzantine Empire adopt various mathematical, scientific and philosophical theories of the Arabs and India adopted the technology from China papermaking, pulverisation, as well as the grip and much nautical technology heavy whee guide plow that was neutered to suit the environment could handle the thicker soil of Northern Europe relied on horses and used horseshoes probably from China or Central Asia system of three field crop rotation adopted silk making techniques and became one of the main producers of silk developed cannons as a result of the introduction of gunpowder * Muslim Caliphates new crops introduced in India which were spread well-nigh the empire such as cotton and sugarcane (two crops had a very complex exertion process, and in the rush to produce it, slavery quickly in tensified adopted ancient Persian water-drilling techniques, rockets from China, and papermaking techniques all from China developed a serial of math concepts such as algebra, scientific advances such as in medicine and pharmacology 5.What factors do you see that contributed to the decline of urban beas (possible answers little ice age, invasions, disease, decline of agricultural activity give examples of this) * western Christendom around 476, much that had characterized Roman civilization too weakened, declined or disappeared in the several(prenominal) centuries before and after any semblance of large-scale centralized territorial dominion vanished, disease and warfare reduced Western Europes nation by more than 25% land being cultivated shrunk, while wasteland expanded urban life diminished as Europe reverted to a largely rural existence buildings crumbled from lack of care, and outside Italy, trade routes died out * eastern Christendom decline in urbanization because of the threat of invade of outsiders slavs, arabs, latin crusaders and turks progressively disrupted the empire through simple perceptiveness or military conquests swelling of Constantinoples population was not growth, but because many people chased from their region by Byzantiums enemies sought-after(a) refuge in Constantinople 6. Do you see continuities & changes in social structures, exertion management? ( agitate free peasant agriculture, nomadic pastoralism, craft production, guild organization, unfree labor & govt enforced labor taxes, military obligations? * China create a bureaucracy that managed public works Tang and Song dynasty see a revolution that made it the richest, most skilled and most populous country on earth industrial production soared in both small and large scale enterprises, Chinas iron insert increased dramatically produced things for the market rather than for local consumption outgrowth use of paper money led to the increase in output, population, sk ills and led to a burst of inventiveness * Byzantine Empire agriculture production arranged around two centers estate and village distinctions between landholders and live farmers guilds of specified jobs introduced a new and more productive division of labor * Roman Empire coercive labor system (slavery) 7. Give examples of new forms of coerced labor. Give examples of free peasants resisting attempts to raise dues & taxes (ie revolts in Byzantine empire or China). Give examples of the increased demand for slaves (for both military & domestic purposes) in spite of appearance Central Eurasia, & Eastern Mediterranean. within the new, fragmented and decentralized kingdoms of the Western Christendom, a social system known as feudalism emerged lesser lords and knights swore committedness to greater lords or kings Roman style slavery gave way to serfdom unlike slaves, serfs were not the personal property of their overpowers, couldnt be thrown off land and were allowed to live in families, but they were bound to their masters estates as peasant laborers and owed various payments and services to the lord of the manor house * Byzantine Empire highly regulated slavery natural state of humanity is freedom, but legality of nations may supersede natural law and reduce certain people to slavery basic definition of a slave was anyone whose mother was a slave, anyone who has captured in battle, and anyone who has sold himself to pay a debt, but it was possible to become free * Abbasid Empire had an army henpecked by slave soldiers mamluks originally soldiers captures in central Asia, but after boys specifically taken or bought to be trained as soldiers later dissolved their loyalty to their masters and established themselves as the ruling dynasty * Islamic slaves directed at the service sector concubines, cooks, porters and soldiers form of consumption rather than a factor of production many more fe masculine than male slaves 8. In what ways do we see ge nder relations and family life being affected by religious conversion? may not be many examples in Europe, but several in other areas weve already studied) * Song dynasty, reviving Confucianism tightened patriarchal restriction on women to express images of female submission and passivity emphasized the subordination of women and men and the unavoidableness to keep them separate * Spread of Christianity opened new opportunities for women to become nuns/ associate a convent, offered relative freedom from male control where women could exercise authority and gain some semblance of education * What rise of Islam meant for women is highly disputable on a spiritual level, the Quran states explicitly that women and men are equals, but on a social level, they were viewed as subordinate, especially in marriage sometimes it helped women banned infanticide, gave women control over property/inheritance, postulate a womens consent for marriage etc. , but also diminished their social role s as there were growing restrictions on women