HIST 1011 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Safavid Dynasty, Tokugawa Shogunate, Gunpowder Empire
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Segmentary: organization of a society into segments- way of organizing descent groups in a society. Military- scal: scal-military state was one capable of sustaining large-scale warfare through taxation and scal innovation, such as the creation of a national debt or credit-providing institutions. Informal: formal empires establish direct political and/or military control over those they rule. Although the chronological limits of the period are open to debate, the timeframe spans the period after the late portion of the post-classical age (c. 1500), known as the middle ages, through the beginning of the age of revolutions (c: and is variously demarcated by historians as beginning with the fall of. Constantinople in 1453, with the renaissance period, and with the age of discovery (especially with the voyages of christopher columbus beginning in 1492, but also with. Vasco da gama"s discovery of the sea route to the east in 1498), and ending around the.
