HIST 125 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Zheng He, Precious Metal, Columbian Exchange
Biological Old Regime
-before industrial revolution
-limits on how advanced and big civilizations could become
-agriculture by hand,
-time when we could only rely on human and animal power
Afro-Eurasia
-polycentric super continent,
-religions played a huge part in control of the super continent,
-setting of the biological old regime,
-long distance trading
State
-organized exercise of power over people who live in a certain territory
-focus on what governments do (make/enforce laws, raise armies, declare wars,
collect taxes)
-one ethnicity ruled by the same ethnicity
Sovereignty
-individuals or groups attempting to act like a state,
-individual/group has the ability to make and enforce rules within a given area or
territory,
-to maintain the person that claimed it (king, queen, emperor/empress, shah,
sultan, president)
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-must strive to maintain it against internal and external threats,
-country has ability to control affairs on their own
Black Plague
-black death/bubonic plague,
-all across Afro-Eurasia, Europe population dropped 2 million,
-between 1200 and 1400 40% of China's population died
Ibn Battuta
-born in Morocco
-traveled across Africa through the Arabian Peninsula and central/south Asia all
the way to China,
-being a scholar of Islamic law his education and religion opened many doors and
opportunities,
-greatest pre-modern world trader,
-travelled throughout the Islamic world
Zheng He
-traveled throughout the Indian ocean,
-massive ships,
-didn't try to convert the religion of every civilization he traveled to, -did not
occupy any land or seize any wealth from other countries,
-nonviolent nature of their treasure fleet,
-focused on spreading an idea of the Chinese world, -7 trips, 62 massive ships,
-Chinese Muslim,
-spread religion,
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Document Summary
Limits on how advanced and big civilizations could become. Time when we could only rely on human and animal power. Religions played a huge part in control of the super continent, Organized exercise of power over people who live in a certain territory. Focus on what governments do (make/enforce laws, raise armies, declare wars, collect taxes) Individuals or groups attempting to act like a state, Individual/group has the ability to make and enforce rules within a given area or territory, To maintain the person that claimed it (king, queen, emperor/empress, shah, sultan, president) Must strive to maintain it against internal and external threats, Country has ability to control affairs on their own. All across afro-eurasia, europe population dropped 2 million, Between 1200 and 1400 40% of china"s population died. Traveled across africa through the arabian peninsula and central/south asia all the way to china, Being a scholar of islamic law his education and religion opened many doors and opportunities,
