Brittney Ibrahim
27 December, 2016
AP World History
Mr. Tickler/ Period 4
Continuity and Changes Between the Islam and Christian Regions
The post-classical time period, 600 CE to 1450 CE, was a period of innovation and construction. This period was crucial to the shaping of our current society, each region was extremely diverse, but had homogenous characteristics. Such regions would be the Islamic world and the Christian world. Each of these distinctive regions were located at distant locations both exceedingly impactful, and having their own separate patterns of activity. Between both regions, each one had restricted and superficial contact between one another. In order for these two regions to come into contact with each other, both grew in space and in population, making contact easier between one another. …show more content…
Each having continuities in the dependence of trade, and having an agriculture base. On the other hand, having changes in the idea of more interregional networks and growing in technology, trade, and productivity.
The Islamic regions consisted of the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. While the Christian world included Eastern and Western Europe. Both Christianity and Islam are the dominating religions of the world, this is an effect caused from of expansion and exchange. A continuity that has maintained its importance was the dependence on trade. In both regions trade was the main source that brought in goods and foods. The spread of Islam across much of Africa resulted in profound effects on both those who converted and those who didn't. Islamization also linked Muslim Africa even more closely to the outside world through trade, religion, and politics. Trade and