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Definitions
Strait of Malacca: the shortest path between China, India, Africa, and beyond
(narrow stretch of water that serves as the main shipping channel between the
Indian and Pacific Ocean)
Feudum: a Medieval Latin term that refers to a landed estate
Spread of trade
- 1300 – 1550 C  increased contact between Africa, Asia, and Europe
- Shared political and religious ideas (not just trade)
- The movement of ideas, goods, and people reshaped many elements of
science and culture
- Water and land routes such as the Silk Road and the Trans-Saharan network
were established
- Key Empires  Ottoman, Songhai, Ming Dynasty, Mughals
Power Points in Asia
- 580 – 900 CE  China faces the Mongol Empire (Islam religion spreads
rapidly)
- India gaining power reaching into Southeast Asia (Hinduism and Buddhism
spreading)
- 800 CE  Khmer Empire in Cambodia is a regional factor
- 650 CE  Korean empire gaining coherence
- 700 CE  some regionalized structure in Japan (Buddhist gains, “Warrior”
Japan)
Economic Revolution in china
- 700 – 1200 CE
- Gains in productivity support population growth (biggest population in the
world)
- Agricultural gains (ex: better techniques, more crops, sales of surplus)
- More crop sales led to more commerce, wholesaling, and work in transport
- More efficient modes were developed (ex: 1120’s  first paper money was
issued)
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- More technology and business (ex: joint stock firms) led to more international
links
- Trade spreads from Korea and Japan to southeast Asia, India, Africa, and
Europe
- Shifted focus to maritime (ex: better designed junks, developed the compass)
Economic gains in japan
- 1180 – 1333 CE
- Kamakura Period  trade continues with China
- Along with more coinage, the wider use of “bills of credit” is introduced
- Some individuals spent beyond their means for socio-cultural purposes (ex:
samurai in debt)
- Kamakura shoguns bring in land reform and seek agricultural gains
- Introduced better strains of rice from China, more double-cropping and
fertilizing, iron tools
- In urban settings, trade guilds were established for crafts workers and
merchants to aid in the quality of production
- Improved road networks helped trade
Eurasian Steppe
- Vast stretch from Ukraine to Mongolia
- Traditional lifestyle focused on nomadic herding (grasslands to maintain
sheep, goats, horses)
- Cavalry dominates (prior to gunpowder)
- Xiongu raids compelled China to construct the Great Wall
- Eastern Steppes had Chinese influences
- Western Steppes had Iranian-European influences
The mongol Empire
- 1162 CE  leadership of Temujin changed their name to Chinggis
(“boundless”) after success
- 1206 CE  Chinggis proclaimed “Great Khan” (had an army of 95,000)
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