HIST-102 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Kingdom Of France, Kingdom Of England, Protestantism
12 Oct 2018
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HIST-102
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
China.
Song Dynasty: Yuang Mongol: Ming:
960 - 1279. 1279 - 1368. 1368 - 1644.
• State is well organized with a division of labour amount ministries (military,
agricultural, astrology “rites).
• Judicial and financial system.
• Civil service selected on the basis of merit (under the influence of Confucianism –
ethical philosophy/ancestors’ worship) who said the state should have people made of
integrity and virtues.
• Used experiments to determine who had merit (civil service exams).
• In the Song Dynasty, you could only be placed in after writing these “merit exams” of
memorization.
• The aristocracy will hire a tutor to school their sons to write the exams, but a
commoner could as well (based on learning).
• Confucianism says parents should provide for their kids and kids should listen/obey
their parents (commoner VS emperor relationship).
• Invested in lots of infrastructure which helped agricultural canals for grain transport to
unify China’s economy, facilitated transportation.
China was an agriculturally based country.
• There was still peasants and land owners but not as severe as Europe.
• Agricultural surplus and extensive commercial trade in the Song Dynasty, the state
could start wanting money instead of food.
Tax-In-Kind: Rice farmer pays taxes in bushels of rice.
• The peasant must sell foods and pay taxes in coin.
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• Merchants come up with the idea of “credit” that there will be money paid and
certificate of deposit.
• Song Dynasty invented the “Banknotp” (bank note?).
• Landed Gentry (Mandarin Class) could have a personal library and travel logs, due to
printing in China.
• The state could print paper and put a worth of coin on it. The paper is lightweight
and easier to carry than coins.
• Soldiers will be payed in money.
Cities/Towns in the Song Dynasty are modern.
• “Downtown” and “entertainment” – tea houses, brothels, etc.
• Mandarin class wanted to live the city life, not just in some village.
Census.
• Mid Song Dynasty had 5 cities with at least a million people and 52 cities with
100,000 people.
• Song Dynasty was very urbanized.
• Northern Italy’s population began to flourish after the 1300s to brag that 6 cities had
a population of 50,000 as compared to China.
Trade.
• China is a great trading power.
• “Chinese Silk Road” being imported by Romans as nobody knew how to make silk.
• Parts of the world wanted Chinese goods (silk, porcelain).
• The Chinese invented/found out porcelain first until the 18th century of creating
porcelain.
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