Chapter 21 Class Notes
Travelers
Marco Polo 1253 -1324
Ibn Battuta 1326-1346
Trade-Diplomacy -Missionary Imulse
Technology Exchange
Trade Cities
Khanbaliq, Hongzhou, Quangzo, Melaka
Cambay, Samarkand, Constantinople
Hormuz, Bagdhad, Venice
Characteristic: Strategic Location
Maintain Order
Resist Heavy Taxation
Exchange
Magnetic Compas, Cotton to Africa Sugarcane
Gunpowder (Golden Horde-Russia)
Beubonic Plague, economic contraction
Ming Dynasty
Hongwu: increase Confucian civil service
Mandarins as scholar officials
Eunichs as Imperial Court
Rebuild irrigation system
Re-invigorate manufacturing
Yongle: resinicization
Yongle encyclopedia
Cultural Traditions
Europe
Increase trade = increase taxation
=standing armies
Italian City States strengthen
Hundred Years war
Creates identity for France & England
Direct taxation =Monarchies
Spain
Isabella & Ferdinand
Reconquista
Support exploration
Explorers
China: Zheng He treasure ships
Portugeuses: Henry The Navigator
Navigation school of ship captains, builders, silors and cartographers
Dias: 1488
Columbus 1492
Da Gama 1497
Renaissance
Sculpture Painter- Architect
Humanism
Emotion in paintings
More realistic paintings and musculature sculptures
Revisit Cicero private Chritian and yet Public service
Reconciles Christianity
Urban and Commercial centers require this modification to Christianity
Allows the development of private property profit gaining business ventures by low or middle class
Profits dont necessarily go to Feudal King or Monarc
