MMW 13 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Ford Focus, Christianity, Heresy
20 Nov 2018
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Outline lecture one - new ideas and cultural encounters: the origin and impact of the rise of the west mythology, towards a more inclusive, polycentric narrative of world history . Eurocentric assumptions about western and eastern cultures: manifests itself in subtle ways at times, sinocentrism - china. Insistence that attitude towards change emphasised exceptionalism (only in the west) Islam - improving one"s lot in life, as you better yourself and condition improvement of community, closer to allah: worldly engagement in the east, dynamism and change in the so-called traditional non-western cultures. Evidence in material wealth and infrastructure: the impact of pax mongolica, the linking of world economies or networks, mongol expansion brought pre-determined economic networks together, polycentrism - interdependence without hegemony. 19th century european historians association of european imperialism with some. The west makes history - others merely react as part of that history.
