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1500 A.D. Political, Cultural, and Economic Conditions. Agenda 9/5/2013. Collect Course Outlines and work on Warm-up Discuss Current Event Notes and Map Activity Primary Documents about World in 1500 Wrap up Homework- Personal Narrative . Essential Learning Questions.
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Agenda 9/5/2013 • Collect Course Outlines and work on Warm-up • Discuss Current Event • Notes and Map Activity • Primary Documents about World in 1500 • Wrap up • Homework- Personal Narrative
Essential Learning Questions • What were the major states and empires in the Eastern and Western Hemisphere around 1500? • What were the dominant religions and their locations around 1500? • Where were the major trade routes around 1500?
Major States and Empires in the Eastern Hemisphere around 1500 A.D • England • France • Spain • Russia • Ottoman Empire • Persia • China • Mughal India • Songhai Empire. (Africa)
Empires in the Western Hemisphere around 1500 A.D • Incan Empire • Mayan Empire • Aztec Empire
Five Religions • By 1500 A.D., the five world religions had spread to many areas of the Eastern Hemisphere.
Five Religions and Concentration • Judaism—Europe and the Middle East • Christianity—Europe and the Middle East • Islam—Parts of Asia, Africa, and southern Europe • Hinduism—India and part of Southeast Asia • Buddhism—East and Southeast Asia
Trade By 1500, regional trade patterns had developed that linked Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.
Trading Patterns around 1500 A.D • Silk roads across Asia to the Mediterranean basin • Maritime routes across the Indian Ocean • Trans-Saharan routes across North Africa
Trading Patterns around 1500 A.D (Continued) • Northern European links with the Black Sea • Western European sea and river trade • South China Sea and lands of Southeast Asia
Technological and Scientific Advancements By 1500 A.D., technological and scientific advancements had been exchanged among cultures of the world.
Technological and Scientific Advancements • Paper, compass, silk, porcelain (China) • Textiles, numeral system (India and Middle East) • Scientific transfer—medicine, astronomy, mathematics
Five Religions and Concentration • Which of these religions had spread to other places than where it was in the 1500’s and why?
Trade How did people travel along the Silk Road? At the time were there other trade routes?
Technological and Scientific Advancements • The transfer of scientific and intellectual ideas indicates what about human contact?