China Renaissance

                     China had a renaissance significant

                      to the  European renaissance?

China underwent a renaissance period. In order to have a renaissance your civilization had to be a classical era. A classical era can be classified by seminal thinkers that of Buddhism and Taoism which were two of the main seminal thinkers that were reborn during this era. With economic success it help prove that they had a renaissance period also china had economic success during this period too. Some discoveries made by china were gunpowder, paper and the iron plow. More inventions include revolution of military affairs. The government changed the way they collected taxes, they collected cash for taxes rather than their products to pay for taxes. China was able to gained a lot of revenue from trade. With the result of non Chinese adopting the culture and language.

I believe china had a renaissance significant to the European renaissance due to all the examples and evidence that were able to point out. China had a renaissance that is significant.to the European. The examples that I was able to point like interventions were able to point to the fact that china had a renaissance like the European.

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                          The Worlds of the Fifteenth Century

There were many kinds of civilizations during the Fifteenth Century. There were the nomadic people in Central Asia and West Africa, the hunters and gatherers in Australia and North American as well as the agricultural village societies like the Igbo and the Iroquois. The world's population in the fifteenth century was concentrated in Europe and China. China though had just gone through a population loss. That was mostly due to the century of Mongol rule and the appearance of the plague. After the Mongols rule, China went through a huge culture change and put the Mongols in its past. They started to promote Confucian learning and females had more traditional expectations. During this century was when China recovered and became the most prosperous of the world's major civilization. That happened because their economy rebounded as trade flourished and population grew. On the other end of Eurasia, similar things happened. Although Europe had escaped the Mongols, they had been devastated by the plague but their population started to grow again during the second half of the fifteenth century. The difference between China and Europe was that in Europe, they started rebuilding separate, independent and highly competitive states. They learned how to tax their citizens more efficiently than China which helped them rebuild their state at a faster pace. Since there were so many independent states, there were more conflicts, like the Hundred Years' War between France and England.

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                                The Worlds Of Islam

Islam like Christianity emerged in the Mediterranean and middle eastern civilization. Unlike Christianity, that appeared within a small population of Jews, Islam, took over the cities and the deserts of the Arabia peninsula. Mohammad was a trader and traveled all the way to Syria. He like Buddha and Jesus  underwent a religious experience that convinced him he was the messenger from Allah to the Arabs. He was convinced that he was supposed to bring them a scripture in their own language. The scripture he brought is still used today as it is considered the very words of God and the core of the Muslim faith. The Quran, which was brought by Mohammad, was so powerful that it changed the polytheistic religion to a monotheistic religion with Allah as the all-powerful and only God. The Quran returned the Arab tribal life which included solidarity, equality and concern for the poor. Islam is also represented by the Pillars of Islam (five). Islam was so powerful that it did not take a long time to make an Arab Empire that controlled many trade routes. Not only did the religion of Islam spread all over the world, but so did its language and culture, this happened during the third-wave millennium. Even though many invasions threatened Islam, the Islamic state remained united and because of this, it became the first true global civilization.

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                                The Worlds Of Christendom

In this chapter it talks about how it became one of the worlds religion. It provided a measure of culture commonality for the people of western Eurasia that were diverse. In Asia Christianity almost disappeared because of the threat of Islam but it reappeared once the Mongols took over china. The expansion of Islam also threated Christianity in Africa because of the white spread of Islam. While Egypt remained a christen during the envision of Islam, the European and Mongols  that threatened Egypt land to its conversion to Islam. After the year 1000 western Europe went through some changes mostly because of all the invasions from the Vikings, the Muslims, and the Magyar.  The population of Europe grew from the year 1000 to 1340 which led to more lands needed to be open for cultivation. New villages were organized on former forests water was drained and land was reclaimed from the Netherlands. By the year 1300, forest in Europe were reduced to 20%. This change increased long distance trade that had dried up after the collapse of the Roman empire.  The characteristics of Christendom had a life long impact as well as going into the modern era. The characteristics emerged during the era of the third wave civilization.

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                                  Commerce and Culture

In this chapter it talks about how the trade impacted society because it altered consumptions and shaped the daily life of the society. It change the working life of people because it encourage them to specialized it a particular product to sell. They sold there products to distant markets. Trade further increased the gap between the wealthy and poor because the elites distinguish themselves by getting goods from a distance. Trade also affected politics because trade was complicated and needed to be controlled by authorities. trade became a vehicle for many things. it caused the spread of religious ideas, technological ideas, germs as well as foreign plants and animals. The biggest exchange of goods across Eurasian were the silk Roads it went from Arabia all the way to china. Agriculture was suitable in the outer Eurasia where it consisted of warm and well watered areas. The silk road was the most used when the powerful states provided protection for their merchants and travelers. Sea roads went through the Arabian, Indian ocean, and the South china sea. One of the biggest port of this network was the Italian city of Venice. Venice had many ships and merchants in both the Mediterranean and the Black seas. The sand roads linked North Africa and the Mediterranean world to West Africa. This enriched the west African civilization by connecting it to the rest of the world.

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                                    Classical Era Variations - Africa

Civilizations for Africa was very small it was home to eleven percent of the worlds population.
The Roman Empire incorporated the entire North African coastal region and developed produces like wheat, and olives on large estates with slave labor. They had an Axum which is a Christian kingdom. It was home to a wide variety of economic specialties. Rainfall was less dependent for agriculture base irrigation. The African societies have a different way of thinking with gender roles, egalitarian. Civilizations always needed an agriculture base. what led to their demise was deforestation. They sacrifice people as well as conquering some.

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Chapter three discuses the empires and civilization in North Africa and Eurasia where they had systems to organize its society like a political system and culture values. The features that were distinctive in the second wave Eurasion civilization were political, culture and social features. The Chinese political feature is undefined where as for the others they are either under frequent fragmentation or royal absolutism also roman empire. The culture feature has different religion or meaning. The social feature have different class system or hierarchy so like who does what, who has the power and pretty much what they can do or not do. They had a system of imperial spies meaning "eyes and ears of the king" it indicated a imperial presence for the empire. Rome started out as a small and impoverished city/state. With there political system in place the romans were able to start there empire and build on it. The reason why  the romans took so long to build there empire was because the were creating something new unlike china where they created there empire from restoring something old. They both ended up getting a foreign religious tradition. With some apparent regularity they ended up  collapsing, these once strong structures that seemed to have had a good system to help there society ended up falling. They believe they were faced with some problems from the Germanic speaking people. Also rivalry created a instability for both empires and over through the authority.