HIST104 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Civilization Ii, Absolute Monarchy, Shia Islam
22 May 2017
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Modern world: a sum of processes beginning in the 1400s including commercialization, urbanization, individualization, capitalization, scientization, innovation, acceleration, and industrialization. Adds up to quantitative and qualitative entity. Before modernization, people favored grouped thinking, while after modernization people began convey themselves as individuals. Hockey stick graphs: world population growth rate; gross domestic product; energy consumption; diffusion of technology. Early connectivity: connected europe to east asia through systems of organization and trade where goods moved back and forth. Marco polo (1272-1295: venetian trader who peaked curiosity of merchant journey in the organized world, religious dynamic: request for oil and 100 of pope"s people to convince of christianity. Islamic legal scholar from morocco who traced the coast of his islamic world to service those with his specialty in legal advice. Zheng he: put in change of a ming dynasty state project all the way to africa. Five world regions: asia, chinese empire, korean kingdoms, japanese shoguns, vietnamese kings.
