DBQ is not from Unit 1-2.
UNIT 0:
World religions, zoroastrianism, persia. Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Daoism,
Sikhism, Confucianism.
WORLD RELIGIONS MAP
UNIT 1:
Song Dynasty, Song China, wanted to develop a centralized bureaucracy
Mandate of heaven and dynastic rule
Confucianism
Imperial Bureaucracy (To become a part of the Scholar Gentry, high government positions)
Yuan dynasty (Mongol control of China, Scholar Gentry declined, Mongols were favored)
Confucianism five relationships
Slaves, Merchants, Artisans, Peasants, Nobles, Emperors.
Dar-al Islam was high in government
Neo-Confusionism, foot binding becomes more popular in Song Dynasty
Song Dynasty innovations: Gunpowder, Paper/Painting, Paper Money and flying money,
compass. The Song increased the production of luxury items, increased production and
innovation in iron and steel.
Adopted Chnapa rice to increase food amounts.
Neo-Confucianism focuses on Chinese philosophy and decreases foreign influence, merchants
were looked down upon as they did not do “honest work”.
The government was trying to exterminate the effects of Buddhism on Chinese societies,
Buddhism was not highly valued but was valued in the peasant class.
Silk and Porcelain, main luxury items produced by the Song dynasty.
Continuity, Song Dynasty produces more Chinese luxury items already spread due to the Silk
road.
Song China expanded trade networks.
Trans-continental railroad
Vietnam was a tribute state to China
Grand Canal and Champa rice improve the economy
Sinification-spread of Chinese values to other states such as Vietnam, Korea, and Japan.
Japan experienced the least sinification.
Chinese invented the formula for gunpowder
Junk boat, most technologically advanced ship
Muslim merchants along the Indian ocean trade, knowledge of monsoon winds
Buddhism spread from India through trade networks, became a monastic religion, monks
spread the religion, created temples, and converted people.
Buddhism: Theravada, Mahayana, Tibetan buddhism, life is suffering, 4 noble truths, 8 fold path.
Mahayana Buddhism is community based, Theravada Buddhism is individual practice, Tibetan
Buddhism is based on the Dalai Lama.
Theravada looks at the budha as a deity
, Cultural fighting between the 3 abrahamic religions happen
5 pillars of Islam, Sufi’s are the missionaries, Sunni/Shi’a split. Sunni’s believe that the Caliph’s
should be based on the person’s morals, Shi’a’s believe that the Caliphs should be descendants
of Muhammad.
Safavid and Ottomans
Islam spreads through conquest
By 1200 the Abbasid Empire started to crumble.
Muhammad himself was merchant and Islam spread through merchants
Islam spreads to southeast asia. The Srivijaya empire was buddhist , but an Islamic state rises
up in its place when the Srivijaya empire declines.
Indonesia is Hindu, Muslim and Buddhist.
The Abbasid empire becomes fragments
This led to the rise of Saljuk Turks, Delhi Sultanate, Mamluks, Ottomans.
House of Wisdom, Arabic numerals from India, Anatomical drawings, developed scientific
process, study of light and optics, they had Greek texts and philosophy. Women had more jobs
and opportunities. The European Renaissance would not be possible without the innovations of
Dar-al Islam.
Hinduism had a caste system based on what you were born with, Shudras, Vaishyas,
Kshatriyas, Brahmins on top.
Bhakti movement- syncretism between Hinduism and Islam.
Swahili is a syncretic language.
Hindu states, Vijayanagara, Rajput kingdoms, Khmer Empires
Buddhist states, Khmer Empire was hindu became buddhist after 1100, Sukhothai, Srivijaya,
Majapahit
Angkor Wat
Delhi sultanate is Islamic
North America: Pueblo, Mesa Verde and Chako, Mississippian:Cahokia
Central America: Maya, Mexica, Aztec
South America: Inca
Inca believed that their rulers were descendants of the sun god
Inca socialism: forced different people in the society to do different jobs in the state.
Inca’s socialism mainly benefits the Spanish
Polynesian migration is ending during this time period, starts in 1300
Inca terrace farming, a unique way for the Incas to grow food can be used as a technological
innovation.
NW Africa: ali Empire, Hausa Kingdoms
NE Africa: Ethiopia
SE Africa: Swahili Coast, Great Zimbabwe
Central Africa: Sub-Saharan Stateless Kinship based societies
African kings wanted to solidify their power over their empire
Mansa Musa was the most famous African person in this time period, spreads gold as he goes
on Hajj, helps build Timbuktu, gold and salt were traded ounce for ounce, Mansa Musa built
more mosques.
UNIT 0:
World religions, zoroastrianism, persia. Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Daoism,
Sikhism, Confucianism.
WORLD RELIGIONS MAP
UNIT 1:
Song Dynasty, Song China, wanted to develop a centralized bureaucracy
Mandate of heaven and dynastic rule
Confucianism
Imperial Bureaucracy (To become a part of the Scholar Gentry, high government positions)
Yuan dynasty (Mongol control of China, Scholar Gentry declined, Mongols were favored)
Confucianism five relationships
Slaves, Merchants, Artisans, Peasants, Nobles, Emperors.
Dar-al Islam was high in government
Neo-Confusionism, foot binding becomes more popular in Song Dynasty
Song Dynasty innovations: Gunpowder, Paper/Painting, Paper Money and flying money,
compass. The Song increased the production of luxury items, increased production and
innovation in iron and steel.
Adopted Chnapa rice to increase food amounts.
Neo-Confucianism focuses on Chinese philosophy and decreases foreign influence, merchants
were looked down upon as they did not do “honest work”.
The government was trying to exterminate the effects of Buddhism on Chinese societies,
Buddhism was not highly valued but was valued in the peasant class.
Silk and Porcelain, main luxury items produced by the Song dynasty.
Continuity, Song Dynasty produces more Chinese luxury items already spread due to the Silk
road.
Song China expanded trade networks.
Trans-continental railroad
Vietnam was a tribute state to China
Grand Canal and Champa rice improve the economy
Sinification-spread of Chinese values to other states such as Vietnam, Korea, and Japan.
Japan experienced the least sinification.
Chinese invented the formula for gunpowder
Junk boat, most technologically advanced ship
Muslim merchants along the Indian ocean trade, knowledge of monsoon winds
Buddhism spread from India through trade networks, became a monastic religion, monks
spread the religion, created temples, and converted people.
Buddhism: Theravada, Mahayana, Tibetan buddhism, life is suffering, 4 noble truths, 8 fold path.
Mahayana Buddhism is community based, Theravada Buddhism is individual practice, Tibetan
Buddhism is based on the Dalai Lama.
Theravada looks at the budha as a deity
, Cultural fighting between the 3 abrahamic religions happen
5 pillars of Islam, Sufi’s are the missionaries, Sunni/Shi’a split. Sunni’s believe that the Caliph’s
should be based on the person’s morals, Shi’a’s believe that the Caliphs should be descendants
of Muhammad.
Safavid and Ottomans
Islam spreads through conquest
By 1200 the Abbasid Empire started to crumble.
Muhammad himself was merchant and Islam spread through merchants
Islam spreads to southeast asia. The Srivijaya empire was buddhist , but an Islamic state rises
up in its place when the Srivijaya empire declines.
Indonesia is Hindu, Muslim and Buddhist.
The Abbasid empire becomes fragments
This led to the rise of Saljuk Turks, Delhi Sultanate, Mamluks, Ottomans.
House of Wisdom, Arabic numerals from India, Anatomical drawings, developed scientific
process, study of light and optics, they had Greek texts and philosophy. Women had more jobs
and opportunities. The European Renaissance would not be possible without the innovations of
Dar-al Islam.
Hinduism had a caste system based on what you were born with, Shudras, Vaishyas,
Kshatriyas, Brahmins on top.
Bhakti movement- syncretism between Hinduism and Islam.
Swahili is a syncretic language.
Hindu states, Vijayanagara, Rajput kingdoms, Khmer Empires
Buddhist states, Khmer Empire was hindu became buddhist after 1100, Sukhothai, Srivijaya,
Majapahit
Angkor Wat
Delhi sultanate is Islamic
North America: Pueblo, Mesa Verde and Chako, Mississippian:Cahokia
Central America: Maya, Mexica, Aztec
South America: Inca
Inca believed that their rulers were descendants of the sun god
Inca socialism: forced different people in the society to do different jobs in the state.
Inca’s socialism mainly benefits the Spanish
Polynesian migration is ending during this time period, starts in 1300
Inca terrace farming, a unique way for the Incas to grow food can be used as a technological
innovation.
NW Africa: ali Empire, Hausa Kingdoms
NE Africa: Ethiopia
SE Africa: Swahili Coast, Great Zimbabwe
Central Africa: Sub-Saharan Stateless Kinship based societies
African kings wanted to solidify their power over their empire
Mansa Musa was the most famous African person in this time period, spreads gold as he goes
on Hajj, helps build Timbuktu, gold and salt were traded ounce for ounce, Mansa Musa built
more mosques.
