HIST 1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cairo Geniza, Nutmeg, Foot Binding
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Straits of homuz, malacca, and sunda; gulf of aden. Pluralism > an ability to encompass with a variety of different peoples who have different cultures, groups, and traditions, etc. Barbarians don"t call themselves barbarians, the civilized do. Civilized meaning they are xed in place and are not migratory. They rely principally on their domesticated animals > move with those animals. Intersting case of how pluralism plays out. The role of religion in the operation in the ching dynasty. If you look at china at this time it is religiously pluralistic. There are all moral principles > confusion principles > became the basis for a central govermenting ethos for china > bureaucracy. Confusionism is not a religition > no discussion of afterlife. The manchus have no power to change china. The state language in china doensnt change. It all continues until the collapse of the ching dynasty in the early 20th century.
