Asia
The civil service exams allowed men to obtain government positions based on their qualifications. This was China's bureaucratic government system.
What is a meritocracy?
The most powerful institution in Europe.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
A storyteller who were the source of history for a community; skilled at music
What is a griot?
The belief system in which merchants were viewed as prestigious.
What is Islam?
Practice in which women would wrap their feet tightly. Resulted in the deformation of feet. Signified a higher social status.
What is foot-binding?
A system in which all needs were provided to the tenants of the land (church, markets, blacksmiths, mills), resulting in little communication between the tenants and the outside world
What is the manorial system?
A form of government in Africa in which families governed themselves
What is a kin-based network?
The belief system that required women to wear head coverings, denied women the ability to study/read in public, and allowed women to own property
What is Islam?
Mahayana, Theravada, Tibetan, and Chan (Zen)
What are different forms of Buddhism?
What is the First Crusade?
Environmental factors, European disease, Spanish attacks, civil wars.
What are reasons for the decline of the Aztec, Inca, and Maya?
the development of a strong attachment of a particular deity; appealing due to lack of discrimination against women and people of low social status
What is the Bhakti Movement?
This was the belief system in which merchants were viewed as low-status because their jobs were not difficult or strenuous.
What is Confucianism?
Brought an increase in Middle Eastern goods to Europe.
What is the impact of the Crusades?
This group would often convert to Islam due to their desire for an increased social status.
Who are low-caste Hindus?
This was the reason for southern India being more politically stable than northern India.
What is a centralized government?
A blending of Daoism and Buddhism, resulting in Chan (Zen) Buddhsim.
What is syncretism?
The core of feudalism.
What is the relationship between monarchs, lords, knights, and peasants?
These were other cultures' contributions to the Islamic world.
What are Greek classical literature, Indian mathematics, and Chinese papermaking?
Both had very little social mobility and were built on hereditary hierarchies. However, in Japan, the daimyo were over vast stretches of land and more powerful than the emperor or shogun. Whereas, in Europe, the monarch was above the nobility.
What is the comparison between Japanese and European feudalism?