HIST 122 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sharia, Mercantilism, Persian People
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Deep structural relationships (communications, commodities, mass migration) forged in the course of cultural and economic exchange provided a new synthesis of ideas and possibilities. E. g. there would have been no american revolution without french and british competition. New identities and concepts of nation arose. Ideas like independence, freedom, and equality had power and prompted political revolts in the americas and europe. Since then, revolution has been a powerful force. Forces that facilitated pre-modern and old world globalisation. An east to west array of states which allowed for easier communications and sharing of crops and agricultural techniques. Universal religio-ethical movements provided a cultural medium for communication of ideas as well as values: axial age period from 800bc-600ce when the four major religions (judaism, christianity, Islam, buddhism, and sometimes confucianism) were created: all these religions share an empathic spirituality and morality, especially the golden rule", whereas previous religions focused more on rituals. Empire building facilitated large scale government and movement of goods.
