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14005350305Influences of Daoism on Chinese cultureMedical theories and practices Poetry Metallurgy Architecture (Balance)0
14005350306Religious ArtHindu art and architexture Buddhist ' ' ' Christian ' ' ' Greco Roman ' ' '1
14005350307Persian EmpiresAchaemenid, Parthian, Sassanid2
14005350308Imperial CitiesPersepolis, Chang'an, Pataliputra, Athens, Carthage, Rome, Alexandria, Constantinople, Teotihuacan3
14005350309Methods of Ensuring Production and Social HierarchyCorvee labor slavery rents and tributes4
14005350310Changes in Farming and Irrigationquanāt system waterwheels Shaduf/Wells and Pumps (Persia)5
14005350311Environmental Knowledge and Technological AdaptationsVikings - Longboat traversing Arabs and Berbers - Camels C.Asian pastorials - Horses6
14005350312Diffusion of LanguageBantu, Turkic, and Arabic7
14005350313Exchange NetworksMissisipi River Valley Mesoamerica Andes8
14005350314New Forms of Credit and Money economiesBills of exchange, Credit, Checks, Banking Houses, Use of Paper Money9
14005350315Diasporic communitiesMuslim merchant communities in Indian Ocean Chinese merchant communities in Southeast Asia Sogdian merchant communities throughout Central Asia Jewish communities in the Mediterranean Indian Ocean basin along the Silk Road10
14005350316TravelersIbn Battuta - M.E + Africa Marco Polo - Europe + Asia Xuanzang - China + India11
14005350317Diffusion of Literary, Artistic, and Cultural traditionsChristianity - Europe Neoconfucianism + Buddhism - S.E Asia Islam - Subsaharan Africa, Asia Toltec/Mexica/Inca tradition - Andean America12
14005350318Diffusion of Crops (Period 3)Bananas - Africa Rice Varieties - East Asia Cotton, Sugar, Citrus - Middle East13
14005350319Traditional sources of powerPatriarchy Religion Land-owning elites14
14005350320Innovations (P3)New methods of taxation Tributary System Adaptation of Religious Institutions15
14005350321city-statesItalian Peninsula East Africa S.E Asia16
14005350322Synthesis by statesPersian traditions that influenced Islamic states, Chinese traditions that influenced states in Japan17
14005350323Technological and Cultural Transfers (P3)Islamic Science --> Mongol China (Yuan) Greco-Islamic Medicine --> West Europe Transfer of Islamic foods,technology,textiles,music --> Europe18
14005350324Technological Innovations (P3)Chinampas Waru Waru - Andean Terracing Horse Collar Three Field Rotation Swamp Draining19
14005350325Peasant RevoltsChina - An Shi Byzantine Empire20
14005350326Changes to Family StructureDivorce - Muslim States Foot Binding - China Monastic Females (nuns) - Christianity and Buddhism21
14005350327Innovations to Ship DesignCaravel Carrack Fluyt22
14005350328American Foods to EuropePotatoes Maize Manoic23
14005350329Cash CropsSugar Tobacco24
14005350330domesticated animalshorses pigs cattle25
14005350331Foods brought by African slavesokra rice26
14005350332Syncretic PracticesSufi Missionaries (Islam) Sunni-Shi'a Split (Islam) Protestant + Catholic Reforms (Christianity) Voodoo/Vodun (Christian+African) Sikhism (Hindus + Islam) Buddhism practices27
14005350333Coerced LaborChattel Slavery Indentured Servitude Encomienda + Hacienda Incan Mit'a28
14005350334New Elite ClassesManchus in China Creole Elites in Spanish America European Gentry Urban Entrepenuers29
14005350335Gender and Family RestructuringThe dependence of European men on Southeast Asian women for conducting trade in that region smaller size of European families (Nuclear)30
14005350336Religious Ideas (P4)European Divine Right Safavid Shiism Aztec/Mexica Human Sacrifice Songhay Islam Confucsianism China31
14005350337Differential Treatment of Ethnic and Religious GroupsSpanish República de Indios Spanish + Portuguese Casta32
14005350338Bureaucratic/Millitary ProfessionalsOttoman Devshirme (Jannisaries) Confuscian Exams Salaried Samurai33
14005350339Competition over Trade routes (P4)Omani-European rivalry in the Indian Ocean Piracy in the Caribbean34
14005350340State rivalries (P4)-Thirty Years War - Ottoman-Safavid conflict35
14005350341Local Resistance (P4)Food riots Samurai Revolts Peasant Uprisings36
14005350342Production and Export of Natural Resources (P5)cotton, rubber, palm oil, sugar, wheat, meat, guano, metals37
14005350343Decline of Middle Eastern and Asian Share in Global ManufacturingShipbuilding in India and Southeast Asia iron works in India textile production in India and Egypt38
14005350344Commodities that contributed to the expansion of the 19th century global economyopium produced in ME or SAsia and exported to China Cotton in SA, Egypt, Carribean, USA, exported to Europe Palm Oil SubSAfrica exported to Europe Copper from Chile and West US39
14005350345Transnational businessUnited Fruit Company, (Banana republics) shanghai banking corp. ( HSBC, ) zaibatsu40
14005350346Financial Instruments (P5)Stock Market Insurance Gold Standard Limited liability corporations (Capitalism)41
14005350347state-sponsored visions of industrializationEconomic reforms in Meiji Japan, development of factories and railroads in Tsarist Russia, China's Self-Strengthening movement, Muhammad Ali's development of a cotton textile industry in Egypt42
14005350348States with existing coloniesBritish in India and the Dutch in Indonesia43
14005350349European states that established empires in AfricaBritain in West Africa Belgium in the Congo44
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