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AP World History Review Period 3: Regional and Trans-Regional Interactions c. 600 CE – c. 1450 CE. Bill Strickland East Grand Rapids High School East Grand Rapids, MI bstrickl@egrps.org. KC 3.1 Expansion & Intensification of Communication & Exchange Networks.
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AP World History ReviewPeriod 3: Regional and Trans-Regional Interactionsc. 600 CE – c. 1450 CE Bill Strickland East Grand Rapids High School East Grand Rapids, MI bstrickl@egrps.org
KC 3.1 Expansion & Intensification of Communication & Exchange Networks • Improved transportation technologies & commercial practices led to increased trade volume, & expanded geog range of trade networks • Movement of peoples caused linguistic & environmental effects
KC 3.1 Expansion & Intensification of Communication & Exchange Networks • Exchange fostered by intensification of existing, or creation of new networks • Continuity: diffusion of crops & pathogens through E Hemisphere along trade routes.
KC 3.2 Continuity & Innovationof State Forms & their Interactions • Empires collapsed & reconstituted; in some regions new state forms emerged. • Inter-regional contacts & conflicts btwn states/empires encouraged significant technological & cultural transfers • btwn Tang China & Abbasids • across Mongol empires/khanates • during the Crusades
KC 3.3 Increased Economic ProductiveCapacity & Its Consequences • Innovations stimulated agric & industrial production • Fate of cities varied greatly • Periods of significant decline/increased urbanization buoyed by rising productivity/expanding trade
KC 3.3 Increased Economic ProductiveCapacity & Its Consequences • Continuities: • Social structures shaped by class/caste • Patriarchy persisted; however, women exercised more power/influence (Mongols & W Africa, Japan & SE Asia) • Methods of Production • free peasant agriculture • nomadic pastoralism • craft production/guilds • coerced/unfree labor • gov’t imposed labor taxes • military obligations
KC 3.3 Increased Economic ProductiveCapacity & Its Consequences • Changes in labor management & effects of religious conversion on gender relations & family life • Diffusion of Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Neo-Confucianism led to significant changes in gender relations/family structure. • New forms of coerced labor appeared: • serfdom in Europe & Japan • Incan mit’a • Free peasants resisted attempts to raise dues and taxes by staging revolts • Demand for slaves for military & domestic purposes increased