Cross-Cultural Interations The World (History) According to Dixon
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Chapter 21 Class Notes
Travelers
Marco Polo 1253 -1324
Ibn Battuta 1326-1346
Trade-Diplomacy -Missionary Imulse
Technology Exchange
Trade Cities
Khanbaliq, Hongzhou, Quangzo, Melaka
Cambay, Samarkand, Constantinople
Hormuz, Bagdhad, Venice
Characteristic: Strategic Location
Maintain Order
Resist Heavy Taxation
Exchange
Magnetic Compas, Cotton to Africa Sugarcane
Gunpowder (Golden Horde-Russia)
Beubonic Plague, economic contraction
Ming Dynasty
Hongwu: increase Confucian civil service
Mandarins as scholar officials
Eunichs as Imperial Court
Rebuild irrigation system
Re-invigorate manufacturing
Yongle: resinicization
Yongle encyclopedia
Cultural Traditions
Europe
Increase trade = increase taxation
=standing armies
Italian City States strengthen
Hundred Years war
Creates identity for France & England
Direct taxation =Monarchies
Spain
Isabella & Ferdinand
Reconquista
Support exploration
Explorers
China: Zheng He treasure ships
Portugeuses: Henry The Navigator
Navigation school of ship captains, builders, silors and cartographers
Dias: 1488
Columbus 1492
Da Gama 1497
Renaissance
Sculpture – Painter- Architect
Humanism
Emotion in paintings
More realistic paintings and musculature sculptures
Revisit Cicero – private Chritian and yet Public service
Reconciles Christianity
Urban and Commercial centers require this modification to Christianity
Allows the development of private property – profit gaining – business ventures by low or middle class
Profits don’t necessarily go to Feudal King or Monarc
Chapter 21 Class Notes
Travelers
Marco Polo 1253 -1324
Ibn Battuta 1326-1346
Trade-Diplomacy -Missionary Imulse
Technology Exchange
Trade Cities
Khanbaliq, Hongzhou, Quangzo, Melaka
Cambay, Samarkand, Constantinople
Hormuz, Bagdhad, Venice
Characteristic: Strategic Location
Maintain Order
Resist Heavy Taxation
Exchange
Magnetic Compas, Cotton to Africa Sugarcane
Gunpowder (Golden Horde-Russia)
Beubonic Plague, economic contraction
Ming Dynasty
Hongwu: increase Confucian civil service
Mandarins as scholar officials
Eunichs as Imperial Court
Rebuild irrigation system
Re-invigorate manufacturing
Yongle: resinicization
Yongle encyclopedia
Cultural Traditions
Europe
Increase trade = increase taxation
=standing armies
Italian City States strengthen
Hundred Years war
Creates identity for France & England
Direct taxation =Monarchies
Spain
Isabella & Ferdinand
Reconquista
Support exploration
Explorers
China: Zheng He treasure ships
Portugeuses: Henry The Navigator
Navigation school of ship captains, builders, silors and cartographers
Dias: 1488
Columbus 1492
Da Gama 1497
Renaissance
Sculpture – Painter- Architect
Humanism
Emotion in paintings
More realistic paintings and musculature sculptures
Revisit Cicero – private Chritian and yet Public service
Reconciles Christianity
Urban and Commercial centers require this modification to Christianity
Allows the development of private property – profit gaining – business ventures by low or middle class
Profits don’t necessarily go to Feudal King or Monarc
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