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Collapse and Revival in Afro-Eurasia 1300-1450 (Islam's New Frontiers,…
Collapse and Revival in Afro-Eurasia 1300-1450
Fourteenth-Century Crisis and Renewal in Eurasia
The Black Death
Europe had climate change problems
Killed about 1/3 population
originated by trade routs by black sea
Didn't hit china as bad
Urban wages rise, rural nomadal pastoralism
Muslim's didn't see it as punishment from God
Rebuilding the West
Latin Europe recovered faster - the poor were freed.
Nobility and church lost a lot of power.
New social order of private property and entrepreneurship
The ruling class didn't do so bad, put money into militaries.
Royal governments and national sense of identity
Spanish Reconquista
Ming China and New Order in East Asia
Chinese eventually threw off the Mongols
Hong Wu like Confucianism
Footbinding and loss of women's rights
Didn't like foreigners, did away with Mongol multi ethnic.
Hong Wu's son tried to undo his fathers actions, "Yongle"
Took Vietnam
Japan untouched, but Korea adopted Confucian governance.
Islam's New Frontiers
Islamic Spiritual Ferment in Central Asia 1350-1500
Sufism like to prosolite
Timur - Mongol Muslim Sufism
Safavid empire
Sha Isma'il created theocracy from Shia doctrine and Safavid religious ferver
Ottoman Expansion
Empire pushed into Balkans, Janissary's and musket fire and cannons
Slave Armies
Preserved Greek Orthodox church to keep social order.
In Anatolia everyone converted to Islam.
Carpet weaving
Didn't like nomads. Deported them to Balkans
Women Low status
Commerce and Culture in Islamic West Africa
Mali Emperor turned Muslim
Muslim Clerics had power
Advance of Islam in Maritime Southeast Asia
Muslim trade in indian ocean brouth Islam to Malaysia
Mixed with local customs, never adopted veil. Women had rights and things.
Global Bazaar
Economic Prosperity and Martime Trade in Asia
Indian Chintz
Iran - weaving
China - Chinaware, big factory
Islamic world loved Chinaware
Zheng He
