Chapter 12- Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage

Chapter 12- Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage

The Mongol Moment

1200-1500

Learning Objectives:

• Evaluate the significance of pastoral societies in world history
• Analyze the conditions of nomadic life
• Analyze the impact of the Mongol Empire on world history
• Discuss the implications of the Eurasian trade sponsored by the Mongols

Big Picture Questions:

1. Prior to the rise of the Mongols, in what ways had pastoral peoples been significant in world history?
2. What accounts for the often negative attitudes of settled societies toward the pastoral peoples living on their borders?  Why have historians often neglected pastoral peoples' role in world history/
3. In what ways did the Mongol Empire resemble other empires, and in what ways did it differ from them?  Why did it last a relatively short time?
4. In what different ways did Mongol rule affect the Islamic world, Russia, China, and Europe?
5. How would you define both the immediate and the long-term significance of the Mongols in world history?
6. How would you assess the perspective of this chapter toward the Mongols?  Does it strike you as negative and critical of the Mongols, as bending over backward to portray them in a positive light, or as a balanced presentation?

Key Terms:

• "age-set"
• Black Death
• Chinggis Khan
• "fictive kinship"
• Ghazan Khan
• Hulegu Khan
• Karakorum
• khagan
• Khanbalik
• Khubilai Khan
• Kipchat Khanate
• Masai
• Modun
• the Mongol World War
• pastoralism
• Temujin
• Turks
• Xiongnu
• Yuan dynasty

Chapter 11- The Worlds of Islam

Chapter 11- The Worlds of Islam

Afro-Eurasian Connections

600-1500

Learning Objectives:

• Explain the causes behind the spread of Islam
• Assess the dynamism of the Islamic World as the most influential of the 3rd Wave civilizations
• Explain how religious divisions within Islam affected political development
• Analyze Islam as a source of cultural encounters with Christian, African and Hindu cultures
• Evaluate the accomplishments of the Islamic world

Big Picture Questions:

1. What distinguished the first centuries of Islamic history from the early history of Christianity and Buddhism?  What sim/dif characterized their religious outlooks?
2. How might you account for the immense religious and military/political success of Islam in its early centuries?
3. In what ways might Islamic civilization be described as cosmopolitan, international, or global?
4. "Islam was simultaneously both a single world of shared meaning and interaction and a series of separate and distinct communities, often in conflict with one another."  What evidence could you provide to support both sides of this argument?   
5. What changes did Islamic expansion generate in those societies that encouraged it, and how was Islam itself transformed by those encounters?

Key Terms:

• Abbasid Caliphate
• al-Andalus
• Anatolia
• Battle of Talas River
• Bedouins
• dhimmis
• al-Ghazali
• hadiths
• hajj
• hijra
• House of Wisdom
• Ibn Battuta
• Ibn Sina
• imams
• jihad
• jizya
• Kaaba
• madrassas
• Mecca
• Mozarabs
• Muhammad Ibn Abdullah
• Muslim
• Pillars of Islam
• Rightly Guided Caliphs
• Quran
• sharia
• shaykhs
• Sikhism
• Sufis
• Sultanate of Delhi
• Timbuktu
• ulama
• Umayyad caliphate
• umma

Chapter 10- The World of European Christendom

Chapter 10- The World of European Christendom

Connected and Divided

500-1300

Learning Objectives:

• Describe European society after the breakup of the Roman Empire
• Compare the diverse legacies of Rome in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire
• Explore Medieval European expansion
• Evaluate the backwardness of medieval Europe relative to other civilizations, and...
• Analyze the steps by which Europe caught up to the East

Big Picture Questions:

1. How did the histories of the Byzantine Empire and Western Europe differ during the era of 3rd Wave Civilizations?
2. What accounts for the different historical trajectories of these 2 expressions of Christendom?
3. How did Byzantium and Western Europe interact with each other and with the larger world of the post-classical era?
4. Was the civilization of the Latin West distinctive and unique, or was it broadly comparable to other 3rd Wave civilizations?
5. How does the history of the Christian world in the postclassical era compare with that of Tang and Song dynasty China?

Key Terms:

• Aristotle (Classical Greek Learning)
• Byzantine Empire
• caesaropapism
• Charlemagne
• Eastern Orthodox Christianity
• Roman Catholic Christianity
• Constantinople
• Crusades
• Cyril and Methodius
• Cyrillic
• European cities
• Greek fire
• guild
• Holy Roman Empire
• "hybrid civilization"
• iconoclasm
• indulgence
• Justinian
• Kievan Rus
• natural philosophy
• Otto I
• system of competing states
• Vikings
• Vladimir, prince of Kiev

Chapter 9- China and the World

Chapter 9- China and the World

East Asian Connections

500-1300

Learning Objectives:

• Analyze the role of China as "superpower" among the 3rd Wave Civilizations
• Provide examples of China's deep influence on East Asia
• Assess the impact of interaction on China
• Explore the modern assumptions about China

Big Picture Questions:

1. In what ways did Tang and Song dynasty China resemble the classical Han dynasty period, and in what ways had China changed?
2. Based on this chapter, how would you respond to the idea that China was a self-contained or isolated civilization?
3. In what different ways did nearby peoples experience their giant Chinese neighbor, and how did they respond to it?
4. How can you explain the changing fortunes of Buddhism in China?  
5. How did China influence the world beyond East Asia?  How was China itself transformed by its encounters with a wider world?

Key Terms:

• An Lushan
• bushido
• chu nom
• foot binding
• hangul
• Hangzhou
• Heian
• Jurchen
• kami
• Khitan
• Kumsong
• Murasaki Shikibu
• Nara
• Neo-Confucianism
• Pure Land Buddhism
• samurai
• Shotoku Taishi
• Sui dynasty
• Tang dynasty
• tanka
• tribute system
• Trung sisters
• Uighurs
• Emperor Wendi
• Xiongnu

Unit 3: An Age of Accelerating Connections 500-1500

Unit 3:  An Age of Accelerating Connections 

500-1500

Back to the basics...

Strayer Chapter Outline:

• Chapter 8- Commerce and Culture (500-1500)
• Chapter 9- China and the World:  East Asian Connections (500-1300)
• Chapter 10- The Worlds of European Christendom: Connected and Divided (500-1300)
• Chapter 11- The Worlds of Islam: Afro-Eurasian Connections (600-1500)
• Chapter 12- Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage: The Mongol Moment (1200-1500)
• Chapter 13- The Worlds of the 15th Century

Period 3: Regional and Transregional Interactions, c. 600 C.E. to c. 1450

·         Key Concept 3.1. Expansion and Intensification of Communication and Exchange Networks

·         Key Concept 3.2. Continuity and Innovation of State Forms and Their Interactions

·         Key Concept 3.3. Increased Economic Productive Capacity and Its Consequences

KEY CONCEPT 3.1: EXPANSION & INTENSIFICATION of COMMUNICATION & EXCHANGE NETWORKS
Although Afro-Eurasia and the Americas remained separate from one another, this era witnessed a deepening and widening of old and new networks of human interaction within and across regions. The results were unprecedented concentrations of wealth and the intensification of cross-cultural exchanges. Innovations in transportation, state policies, and mercantile practices contributed to the expansion and development of commercial networks, which in turn served as conduits for cultural, technological, and biological diffusion within and between various societies. Pastoral or nomadic groups played a key role in creating and sustaining these networks. Expanding networks fostered greater interregional borrowing, while at the same time sustaining regional diversity. The prophet Muhammad promoted Islam, a new major monotheistic religion at the start of this period. It spread quickly through practices of trade, warfare, and diffusion characteristic of this period. (2012 CONTINUITIES & CHANGE ESSAY)