quickly turned in to a pathway for the trade of knowledge. Goods were not the only thing traded on the Silk Road though so was disease. The most notable was the Bubonic Plague‚ or in layman’s terms the Black plague. The plague originated from the Mongols and spread westward with the help of the Silk Road. With so many merchants from all over the spread was inevitable. Whether goods were carried from animal or boat the plague was transferred from one man to the next. Anything that reached the Silk
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(940-1212) the first Muslim Turkic state was formed. 8. At that period there were a lot of flourishing cities (Otrar‚ Suzak‚ Sauran‚ Djent and others) with a high level of culture‚ developed trade and handicrafts on the territory of Kazakhstan. 9. The mongol invasion into the Central Asia led by Chingizkhan started at the beginning of the XIII century. 10. In 1218 Chingizkhan conquered Semirechie and started the siege of Otrar‚ which did not surrender to him; after six months of defense Otrar surrendered
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Chapter Twenty-Two 1. Identify the most significant land and sea routes in the fourteenth century. What societies tended to control and profit from these routes? The most significant routes were the Silk Road & sea lanes in the Indian Ocean. With the silk road‚ Eurasia & west Africa profited while in the sealanes‚ southeast Asia‚ India‚ Arabia‚ Africa‚ China‚ Japan‚ & Africa profited. 2. What was the role of religion in the cultural interactions of this era? Which religion had the greater
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The age of exploration‚ a period of expansion for many Eurasian empires occured between 1450 and 1800. During this period both the Spanish and thep Russian empires were able to advance economically from their connections with societies westward. Both empires used some form of a labor system in order to support their social structures‚ despite the fact that where the laborers originated was different within the two empires. From a political standpoint‚ both empires were run under an autocratic government
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didn’t stand a chance even though they had more men * Succession battles between Mohammed Askia I’s sons in 1593 led to civil war * Lost total control of trade and wealth due to Portuguese explorations around West Africa. | * Threats of invasion by Mongols and Machu * Weakened by power struggles * Became isolated because of the Great Wall of China * Sever famine * Economic problems – people stopped paying taxes | * Main threat – BEIC * Wars of succession weakened empire after Akbar’s death. * |
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traded regularly with Orient. They had spent a lot of time in Constantinople‚ Crimea and around the Balkans. When Marco was six years old‚ his father and uncle set out on their trip to Far East. In 1265‚ they arrived at the court of Kublai Khan‚ the Mongol emperor who ruled over two thirds of Asia and asked them to bring 100 European priests to his court. In 1269‚ Nicolo and Maffeo polo returned to Venice‚ and they had known that Marco’s mother had died while they were on their journey. In 1271‚ Marco
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In Paul Kennedy’s The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers‚ the reader gets to understand how Europe went from a laughing stock of the Western World‚ to a dominant global power. Prior to 1500‚ Europe played a restricted role when it came to technology and other major world events. Empires such as Ming China‚ and the Ottomans‚ were two of the dominant global cultures prior to 1500‚ and Europe was nowhere near as advanced as these two were. As these two countries started to make an inward turn‚ it gave
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The earliest Mesoamerican state was formed by the Olmec‚ which created the foundation for the basic cosmology of the next Mesoamerican civilizations. Other than that they were also the first to organize elaborate public religious ceremonies or to create a solar calendar and even a network of trade routes. The Mayans had come up with many new advances to what the previous cultures did‚ bringing innovations in math and astronomy‚ such as the concept of zero and developing a calendar. Because
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abandoned nomadic ways for a more settled life. They supplemented their tribal organization with a bureaucratic style of administration and‚ in 1625‚ set up a capital in Mukden. To develop their own writing system‚ they borrowed the alphabet of the Mongols. This enabled them to keep records and to translate Chinese works into their own language. Even though both of these empires had different ways of administration‚ the fact still remains that both based their administration on something. For example
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additionally to Europe having the same effect on Asia‚ gradually shaped both cultures. Goods were not the only interactions along the Silk Road. One of the major tragedies in the Eastern Hemisphere was the Bubonic Plague. The Plague originated from the Mongols and spread westward along the Silk Road. The Silk Road had many merchants from all over the continent so the spread of the disease was inevitable. The luxury goods that came from Asia were often carried long distances either by animal or by boat‚
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