GCU 114 Study Guide - Hulagu Khan, Quetzalcoatl, Zheng He
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Simple irrigation networks that local people could manage and maintain. Agriculture was not labor intensive, so did not require advanced political systems to organize labor. Tang empire: avoids overcentralization by giving power to the local elites, gentry, officials, religious establishments; continued. Tang princes competing for political influence enlisted monastic leaders to pray for them and counsel aristocrats to support them (and give wealth to them), later buddhism repressed. Toltecs: created the first conquest state based on military power, expansive. New administrative, legal, and economic systems gov"t, positions of. Chinese elites, gentry pursued things like commerce (despite lower prestige) merchants gained more privileges and prestige. Expansion of commercial contacts sped up commercial contacts. Aztecs: originally clan based (kinship organizations) and served neighboring states as mercenaries, serfs, grew in strength and relocated, creating twin capitals of. Larger states; more centralized government (safety for all) Large organized labor groups (i. e. to build the walls of great.
