Ch 7
Silk Roads
China – silk,
bamboo
Siberia – furs,
amber livestock
India – cotton,
medicine, precious stones
Middle East – dates,
nuts, almonds, dried fruit
Med Basin – gold,
glassware, perfume, grapevines
Powerful states
provided security
Buddhism culture
spread as well as disease
Sea Roads
Indian Ocean paralleling
silk road connected China with Africa
China – silk, porcelain,
tea
India – grain,
ivory, precious stones
Arabia –
frankincense, myrth, perfumes
Africa – ivory,
gold, iron
Med Basin –
ceramics, glassware, wine, gold, olive oil
Sand Roads
Across the Sahara
from Africa to the Mediterranean
Gold, Salt and
Slaves
Ch 8
China
Unified/Golden age
(Tand and Song)
Women were still subordinate
to men
Tribute system
Examination system
Urban cities
Vietnam/China – fast growing rice
Japan/China – separated by 100 miles.
Japan’s borrowing
of China’s ideas were voluntary
China/Eurasian
China’s economic
growth had a major impact throughout Eurasia
China was
recipient of the third-wave era
Buddhism came into China from the silk road and took root there
Ch 10
Christianity was around in Asia and Africa until Islam replaced most of
it
Byzantine – no clear starting point.
Believed to be continuation from roamn empire
Central player in
the trade with euroasia
Russia – cultural diverse
West – rebuilt after the roman collapse
Feudalism
Crusades
Cities were
smaller and weaker compared to China/India/Islam
Pluralism – multicentered political system
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