Unit 2: Post-Classical Era, 600-1450



Unit Two Reading Prompts & Key Terms

Instructions

1. Read the chapter prompt and key terms for the assigned section of text.

2. Read and outline the assigned portion of the textbook

3. After/during reading the entire section, write flashcards for the terms.

• On the front of the card, write the term

• On the back of the card, write a detailed definition of the term.

• Not all terms will be located in the assigned reading. You are still responsible for locating a definition of that term.

4. Then, in the summary of your notes answer the chapter prompt using at least 5 of the terms as evidence (highlight the terms so that I can easily grade them).

5. Print your name (in ink) on the top right hand corner of each note page and print your initials (also in ink) on the top right hand corner of each notecard.

Chapter 13: Byzantium (317-322; 330-336)

What were the continuities and changes that occurred in the Mediterranean from the classical to post classical era?

1. Byzantine empire

• Casesaropapism

• Justinian & Theodora

• Justinian’s Code

• Constantinople

• Legacy of classical Greece in Byzantium

• iconoclasm

• St. Cyril

• The Shism

Chapter 14: Expansive Realm of Islam (345-359)

How and why did the governing structure of Islam change between 622 and 1258 CE?

2. Dar al-Islam

• Muhammad, the “Seal of the Prophets”

• Quran, hadith, Sharia

• Umma

• Five pillars

• Caliphs

• Shia & Sunni

• Umayyad & Abbasid Dynasties

• Jizya

• Ulama

• Qadis

Chapter 14: Economy and Society in the Islamic World (359-370)

How did the expansion of Islam change the economic, social and cultural patterns of the Middle East?

3. agriculture in the Dar al-Islam

• trade in the Dar al-Islam

• Islamic position of women

• Al-Andalus

• Sufis

• Hajj

• Persian, Indian, & Greek influences on Islam

Chapter 19: Syncretism in Sub-Saharan Africa (483-504)

Examine the extent of political, social and cultural changes that took place in Africa as a result of the introduction of Islam and Christianity

• Bantu Migrations

• Ife & Benin

• Kongo

• Ghana

• gold

• Mali, Mansa Musa

• The Swahili

• Women in Africa

• Slavery & slave trade

• African religion

• Ethiopian Christianity

• Islam in Africa

Chapter 15: China—Sui, Tang, & Song (375-391)

Account for changes in government, agriculture and trade in postclassical China

4. Grand Canal

• Tang Taizong

• Equal field system

• Bureaucracy of merit

• Fast ripening rice

• New agricultural techniques

• Foot binding

• Gunpowder

• Naval technology

Chapter 15: China—Spread of Buddhism & Chinese Influence in East Asia (391-397)

How influential was China on Korean and Vietnamese Societies?

5. Chan Buddhism

• Neo-Confucianism

• Silla Dynasty

• Chinese influence in Korea

• Chinese influence in Vietnam

Chapter 16: Syncretism in the Indian Ocean World (405-406; 410-416; 418-428)

Explain economic and cultural patterns in the Indian Ocean basin in the postclassical era

6. Monsoons

• Indian Ocean trade (412-416)

• Emporia

• Sufis & conversion to Islam in South Asia

• Bhakti movement

• Indian influence in Southeast Asia

• Angkor

• Melaka

Chapter 18: The Mongols (461-462; 466-476)

Examine the causes and consequences of the rise of Mongols in the late post-classical era.

7. Temujin

• Kubilai Khan

• Hülegü

• Karakorum

• The Golden Horde

• The Ilkhanate of Persia

• Yuan Dynasty

• Mongol resettlement

• Pax Mongolica

Chapters 15 & 17 Fringe Societies: Medieval Europe & Japan (433-434; 443-454; 397-400)

Compare the societies and economies of Medieval Europe and Japan.

8. Feudalism

• Medieval Manors

• Medieval European agriculture

• Monasteries

• Chinese influence in Japan

• Shinto

• Japanese Emperor

• Tale of Genji

• Shogun

• samurai

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Chapter 20: The Growth of Europe and The Crusades (509-510; 515-529; 531-534)

Explain the changes and continuities that occur in Europe from 600 – 1450 CE.

9. Expansion of arable land

• New agricultural tools, technologies, and crops

• Hanseatic League

• The Three Estates

• Chivalry

• Guilds

• European Women in the High Middle Ages

• St. Thomas Aquinas

• Popular Roman Catholicism (sacraments, saints, Virgin Mary, relics, pilgrimage)

• Heretics

• Reconquista

• The Crusades

Chapter 21: The Americas: Aztec & Inca (539-548; 551-555)

Compare the governance and culture of the Aztec and Inca Empires.

• Tenochtitlan

• Aztec Empire

• Ritual bloodletting

• Inca Empire

• Quipu

• Inca Road

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