600–1450 Time Period – 22% of the Exam Cram Packet Nature and causes of changes in the world history framework leading up to 600–1450 as a period: Major events which caused change: Islam emerges; Islamic empire emerges Industrial Revolution in China (Sung dynasty) Spread of Neo-Confucianism (in China) – mixture of Confucianism with some Buddhism Schism in Christianity (when the east and the west churches divided into Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox Christianity; they divided over the
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Identification Items: Mercantilism: Economic practice common in Europe from the 16th to the 18th century. British and other imperial power’s policy to regulate the economy of their colonies. The policy prohibited the colonies to trade with other nations‚ monopolizing markets and banning the export of gold and silver. Mercantilism demanded that a nation must export more than it imports. Mercantilism was a cause of many wars and also the expansion of colonization. William Penn: English real
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Atlantic World 1492-1750 In 1492 to 1750 there were some social and economic changes that occurred between Africa‚ Europe and the Americas across the Atlantic. Continuities were the desire of Europeans for raw materials like sugar and spice. Changes were the enslavement of Native Americans and Africans destroying their societies in the process. The continuities from 1492-1750 were that the Europeans had a strong demand for sugar spice and raw materials .In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed across
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"Pacific Ocean" where they come together but do not mix. Actually‚ there is not any mixing of these two oceans‚ but there is a mixing of the "glacial melt fresh water"(Light blue color) with the "saline sea waters" (Dark blue color). However‚ due to density contrast‚ they don’t mix... at least not immediately! It has been stated that this stange and natural phenomenon is caused by and where heavy‚ sediment-laden water from the Alaskan glacial valleys and rivers pour into the open ocean. There is
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The moveable type printing press was invented in 1450 and by 1500 it had spread through most of western Europe to the extent where societies became more dependent on it than scribal work.1 This remarkable expansion has had numerous effects on the development of science and technology in European societies. The reasons that this expansion had such a major impact was that it allowed for language standardization‚ the Protestant Reformation and the wide adoption of specific scientific techniques such
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Organization COMPARISON THEMES (SCRIPTED):1. Politics 2. Social Structure 3. Economics/Interactions TIME PERIODS: 1. 400-600 CE 2. 600-1000 CE 3. 1000-1450 CE THESIS As the political and social structures of Sub-Saharan Africa developed during the years 400 - 1450 C.E.‚ hierarchy structures based on kinship were maintained‚ however self-contained city-states grew into large empires. BEGINNING TIME PERIOD INTERIM TIME
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event in the deep ocean; it simply has a much smaller amplitude (wave heights) offshore‚ and a very long wavelength (often hundreds of kilometres long)‚ which is why they generally pass unnoticed at sea‚ forming only a passing "hump" in the ocean. Tsunamis have been historically referred to as tidal waves because as they approach land they take on the characteristics of a violent onrushing tide rather than the sort of cresting waves that are formed by wind action upon the ocean (with which people
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|THE TEARDROP OF THE INDIAN OCEAN: | | | |It’s Most Valuable Cash Crop | |
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THE CONTINUITY OF PARKS BY JULIO CORTÁZAR H E HAD BEGUN TO READ THE NOVEL a few days before. He had put it aside because of some urgent business‚ opened it again on his way back to the estate by train; he allowed himself a slowly growing interest in the plot‚ in the drawing of characters. That afternoon‚ after writing a letter to his agent and discussing with the manager of his estate a matter of joint ownership‚ he returned to the book in the tranquility of his study which looked
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CHAPTER 31 OCEAN CURRENTS TYPES AND CAUSES OF CURRENTS 3100. Definitions The movement of ocean water is one of the two principal sources of discrepancy between dead reckoned and actual positions of vessels. Water in motion is called a current; the direction toward which it moves is called set‚ and its speed is called drift. Modern shipping speeds have lessened the impact of currents on a typical voyage‚ and since electronic navigation allows continuous adjustment of course‚ there is less need to
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