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East Asia: Red
Dar al Islam: Green
South and Southeast Asia: Orange
Americas: Blue
Africa: Purple
Europe: Yellow
Roads & Construction
Water Travel
Water Management
Silk Road
Carpa Nan
Grand Canal
City Water
Irrigation for Rice Farming
Math
Science
Sea
Land
Charge tax to travel
Harsh
Productive
Astronomy
Agriculture
Plows
Great Zimbabwe
Medicine
Gunpowder
Calendar
Charts
3 Field System
Champa Rice
Chinampas
Steel
Decentralized
Centralized
Central Authority; Significant Bureaucracy
Local Control
Limited Higher authority
City-states
Distributed kingdoms, some bureaucracy
Feudalism
Villages, Tribes
Fragmented kingdoms, no bureaucracy
Geometry
Algebra
Taxes/ Tributes
Trade
Service
Money or Goods
Industrialization
Trade by land
Trade by sea
Respected
Shopkeepers Valued
Merchants high in hierarchy
Merchants Valued
Grand Canal
Charge for access to sea routes
Selling Slaves
Extensive Roadways
Atistans, Skilled production of goods for trade
Silk Road
Trans Saharan Trade
Financial/ Tribute System
Jizya
Working Lord's Land
Mita System
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Structure
Living location
Women
Slavery
Limited
Prolific
Rural
Urban
Rigid
Upward Mobility
Restrictive
Free
Muslims could not enslave muslims.
Owning increased social status
3rd Class Level
Agricultural
Manurial
Agricultural and Kinship
Living grew
Cities grew under Islam
One of the largest cities
Cities grew later
Economic and slave ownership
More fluid later
Based on economic advancement
Feudalism
3 levels
Caste
New Scholar Gentry class
More independence than before Islam
Different roles
Allowed to own property
Religious orders and artisans
Matriarchal society
Urbanization brought more restrictions
seperate social sphere after Islam
Patriarchy grew under Tang and Song dynasties
More partiarchal with cities
Trade to Middle East and South Asia
Fertile
Terrace Farming
Import Champa Rice
Rice
Saharan Desert
Floods
Arabian desert
No trees and limited water
Schools
Religion
Adopt New Cultures
House of Wisdom
Islam Arrivals
Christian Universities
Polytheistic
Government
Monotheistic
Filial Piety
Theocracy
Separately Powerful
Hinduism
Animism
Zen Buddhism and Neo Confucianism
Christianity
Islam
Art
Proselytize
Sinification
Visual
Literature/Spoken
Architecture
Cahokia and Great Pyramid
Great Zimbabwe
Qutab Minar
Costumes
Paintings/Sculpture
Griots/Griottes
Poetry
Scholarly Texts