The World: 600 -1300

Expanding CommunitiesSusan Graham and Deborah Smith Johnston

Lexington High Schooldjohnston@sch.lexington.ci.ma.ussgraham@sch.lexington.ci.ma.us

Demographic and Environmental Changes Nomadic Migrations

VikingsTurksAztecsMongolsArabs

Predict the impact of these movements.

Demographic and Environmental Changes Migration of Agricultural Peoples

Bantu migrationsEuropeans to Eastern and Central Europe

Consequences of Disease For ex. Black Plague 1348

Growth and Role of CitiesUrbanization

How much of this demonstrates continuity?

Inter-regional networks and Contacts Mediterranean

trade circuit Silk Routes Indian Ocean Trans-Saharan

Trade Trans-American

circuits

Religious connections: missionaries, inter-religious contact

Impact of Mongols

Mediterranean Circuits

Silk Routes

Indian Ocean

Trans-Saharan Trade

Trans-American trade

Religious Connections

Impact of Mongols: Blessing or a Curse

China: Internal and External Expansion Tang Dynasty

Technological innovations: compass, paper, gunpowder etc.

Influence on JapanFootbinding, Neo-Confucianism

Song DynastyAll the makings of an industrial revolution

Early MingZheng He voyages, eunochs and nomadic

threats

Islamic World: Dar al-Islam Expanding cultural, economic and

political influenceAl-Andalus/ Islamic SpainNorth and West AfricaIndian Ocean: East Africa, India, SE Asia

Technological accomplishments: astrolabe, algebra, philosophy, cartography…

Al-Andalus

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

Europe Break in eastern and Western

Christendom: political significance? Religious schisms compared:

Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholicism

Mahayana and Theravada BuddhismSunni/ Shiite in Islam

Europe Restructuring of institutions

Role of religion: Papacy, Crusades, architecture and education

Development of feudalismComparison of feudalism in Europe and

JapanIncreasing importance of monarchy

over church

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)

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

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?

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.