as well as political and social organizations. Now fast forward four-and-a-half thousand years. The date is 1500 AD. Many monumental developments and changes have occurred. As time passes by‚ many changes occur throughout the world. In Southwest Asia and Asia‚ many changes and continuities in society and life occurred. An important change was that of gender affairs. Near the foundations of civilization‚ most societies were patriarchal‚ having the man of the household control all his property
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Changes and continuities essay In the Period of 200 to 1450 BCE the Silk road was extremely important in connecting Eastern China to the empires of the West. The trade of spices and goods to and from Asia and Europe remained constant. Asian commodities were traded with European merchants along the road and vice versa. Asia’s economy‚ such as that of China specifically‚ remained heavily relative on the money from Silk Road trade. 200 BCE silk roads came to use. Luxury goods were traded between
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significantly between 1450 and 1750. While Russia remained an agricultural society‚ the West became very commercially active and developed a strong manufacturing base. Many of the core areas of the West transformed; governments increased their powers‚ science became the focus of intellectual life. These changes resulted from overseas expansion. Russia‚ on the other hand‚ was heavily concerned with territorial expansion‚ eventually becoming the chief power of Eastern Europe. From there‚ Russian tsars began
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China experienced the fall‚ absence‚ and eventually the re-establishment of imperial authority while Confucianism prevailed through all levels of society from the period of 100-600 C.E. The history of China has often been a history of periods of political unity interrupted by periods of political division. During the classical period from 100 C.E. to 600 C.E.‚ the Chinese experienced the Han dynasty which was an initially strong and efficient dynasty‚ until it had a gradual decline and eventually collapsed
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even connected them with the new world which in turn increased trade happening between the two regions. Over all‚ after 1500 CE‚ there were more routes and ways to be able to trade and communicate effectively. This also ended up connecting Europe and Asia which did all of the previously mentioned things and formed colonies. Some technical developments that made transoceanic European travel and trade possible could be the astrolabe. The astrolabe was a
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During the period of 1492 to 1750‚ Europe experienced drastic changes during their Age of Discovery. As a result of contact and colonization‚ Western Europe’s economy‚ political‚ social‚ and military systems changed‚ but also maintained certain aspects that enabled them to build strong civilizations. Such changes include increased (international) trade routes‚ more centralized governments such as monarchies‚ decreased unifying influence of the Catholic Church‚ and increased interest in military conquest
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its own changes and continuities. Trade flourished between the Asian and Europe at the time and as time went on its sole purpose of trading expanded to many other purposes and affect not only the area it contacted. Although there were many continuities during the time but it has more significant changes that occurred and also impact the world. One significant changes of the Silk Road is when it was first started it mainly started as a way for trade to flourish between Europe and Asia. But the
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During the time between 1750 and 1900‚ there were a lot of changes happening in countries. This period of time was called the Industrial Revolution. In the Industrial Revolution‚ people were moving around a lot. People moved from one country to another hoping that they could find a better way to live life. There were also people who were forced to leave their country because of a crime. The main reason why people moved was because they wanted to find work. A lot of urbanization was happening
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very large amounts of change that took place between the warring states period in China and the Yuan dynasty. China’s economy has varied throughout its history‚ some of the ways it has varied are in the types of currencies that they employed‚ along with the ideas of what their economic values should consist of. Throughout that majority of the time of the warring
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One major change during the Mongol Empire was when the death of the single ruler‚ Chinggis Khan‚ brought upon the division into four khanates‚ three of his sons and a grandson. Dividing up the empire among sons and heirs was an original tribal accordance. His son‚ Ogadei‚ was the successor of the title “Great Khan”. Each khanate ruled and continued to conquer their own sections of the Mongol Empire. One distinct change was the ultimate defeat of the Southern Song dynasty by Chinggis’ grandson
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