HIS201H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Safaviyya, Industrial Revolution, Hunter-Gatherer
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The middle east after the abbasid implosion, 1258. Mongol invasion - end of bagdad renaissance. : acceptance of islam in fertile crescent and al andalus ( muslim spain) Popular majority christian until crusades, demograpghics determined by: conversion, assimilation, resistance, reciprocal appropriatio(cid:374) (cid:894) was(cid:374)"t always o(cid:374)e directio(cid:374)al(cid:895) Class hierarchy in captial damascus: caliph"s household and aristocracy of arabian conquerors (30,000 strong, neo muslims ( converts, members of monotheistic religions, slaves. Orginal span from spain to iran and afghanstan. Northern trade route broke the monopoly of southernly trade routes ( until the plague of the 14th cen) Mongols provided security for merchants to travel under this route. Could the origins of capitalism be found in this pax. Beginings of great world commernce found in this pax. The three muslim empires, 14th to 18th century ( gunpowder empires) They emerged in a pre captialism, but eventually had to face the difficulties of captialism. These 3 empires were far more centralized than other dynasties.
