MMW 13 Midterm: first_midterm_review.docx

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 13
• Professor: Edmond Chang

Document Summary

Introduction: europe"s exceptional heritage, vale of tears medieval fatalism. The belief of religious fatalism, that the earth is just a temporary place of exile before you reach heaven medieval fatalism: theory of cultural diffusion. The belief that the western culture diffuses to the rest of the world in order for them to reach modernity. Western civilizations are more superior and more modernized. They influence the rest of the world to also adapt and enhance themselves: denial of coevalness. The belief that cultures never move in time. The west is constantly progressing while the rest of the world (the east) merely pivots in place without moving ahead in time. Western places are where all the historical events occur. The east can only move ahead in time if they start to adopt. There was shift from polycentric globalism to european hegemony. Mongol conquests: physical extent of mongol expansion.