HIST 213- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 36 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Study guide: the known world - main trading routes included the islamic world, china, central asia (the indian. Chinese poems played with persian tunes; clothing aesthetics; buddhist philosophy based off of indian science/ astrology. Shia muslim, hindus, persians, arabs, malai, etc) who settled there to allow for maritime trade (ships carpenters, scribes, etc: chang"an - city where spice routes and silk roads were connected via canal system, also housed sojourner communities. Agrarian change (sung china: the chinese staff of life, different rice varieties (drought resistant, 2x harvest yield) imported from champa, Demographic consequences: the rice frontier shifted southwards due to the need for warmer conditions for wet rice cultivation, surpluses caused population growth: 742 ce - 60m, 980 ce - 100m, 1200 - 120m. Economic consequences: surpluses were given to state in the form of taxes, leftovers created domestic market between villages - this lead to the facilitation of money.
