1. The World: 600 -1300
Expanding Communities

2. Demographic and
Environmental Changes
 Nomadic Migrations
Vikings
Turks
Aztecs
Mongols
Arabs
Predict the impact of these movements.

3. Demographic and
Environmental Changes
 Migration of Agricultural Peoples
Bantu migrations
Europeans to Eastern and Central Europe
 Consequences of Disease
For ex. Black Plague 1348
 Growth and Role of Cities
Urbanization
How much of this demonstrates continuity?

4. Inter-regional networks and
Contacts
 Mediterranean  Religious
trade circuit connections:
 Silk Routes missionaries,
 Indian Ocean inter-religious
 Trans-Saharan contact
Trade  Impact of
 Trans-American Mongols
circuits

5. Mediterranean Circuits

6. Silk Routes

7. Indian Ocean

8. Trans-Saharan Trade

9. Trans-American trade

10. Religious Connections

11. Impact of Mongols: Blessing
or a Curse

12. China: Internal and External
Expansion
 Tang Dynasty
Technological innovations: compass, paper,
gunpowder etc.
Influence on Japan
Footbinding, Neo-Confucianism
 Song Dynasty
All the makings of an industrial revolution
 Early Ming
Zheng He voyages, eunochs and nomadic
threats

13. Islamic World: Dar al-Islam
 Expanding cultural, economic and
political influence
Al-Andalus/ Islamic Spain
North and West Africa
Indian Ocean: East Africa, India, SE Asia
 Technological accomplishments:
astrolabe, algebra, philosophy, cartography…

14. Al-Andalus

15. Islamic World: Sample
Comparisons
 Compare Islam to Christianity
 Compare Islamic contacts with Europe
and with Africa
 Crusades- points of view compared
 Compare gender changes
 Compare support/ patronage of arts
and sciences

16. Europe
 Break in eastern and Western
Christendom: political significance?
 Religious schisms compared:
Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholicism
Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism
Sunni/ Shiite in Islam

17. Europe
 Restructuring of institutions
Role of religion: Papacy, Crusades,
architecture and education
Development of feudalism
Comparison of feudalism in Europe and
Japan
Increasing importance of monarchy over
church

18. Amer-Indian World
 Migrations over the Bering Strait at least
10,000 years ago.
 Northern America: Cahokia
 Southwest: Hohokam
 Meso-America; Olmecs, Maya, Toltec
(Aztec)
 South America: Nazca, Moche, (Inca)

19. Sub-Saharan Africa
 West African kingdoms: Ghana, Mali,
Songhay
 East African city states: Axum, Kilwa,
Mombasa
 Southern Africa: Great Zimbabwe
 Contacts with Islamic World, Indian
Ocean world, and within Africa
 Role of Trade, Education and Religion

20. Questions we will focus on:
 Was there a world economic network in
this time period?
 How did gender roles change?
 How can material culture and urban
history help us to understand early
societies?

21. Conclusions
 Examples of continuity?
 Examples of change?
Think about new and old players.
Similar patterns and trends: demographic,
social and cultural, technological.
New avenues of intersection.