MMWLecture8
DO NOT WRITE YOUR NAME ON THE Blue notebooks
Structure of the Midterm Multiple-choice Questions: 20 questions 4 points each Essay Questions: 5 Questions, you choose only 1 20 points
Multiple-choice Questions Who was Marco Polo a famed belly dancer in an outlawed Greek restaurant in early 14 th Florence a bankrupt bard who travelled to China to marry a wealthy widow practiced notary in the town Piacenza, but at night a popular drag queen who helped the needy and the poor a Venetian merchant who traveled through Asia
Key terms, ideas, and names Chengiz khan Osman I (Founder of the Ottoman Empire) Kubla KhanKublai Khan Mongol siege of Caffa (I ll talk about this in class Tuesday May 3 rd ) 1276 (Hangzhou fell to the Mongols) 1258 (Baghdad fell to the Mongols) Shamanism (Mongols) "The Mongol (the movie): the way Genghiz is depicted and his rise to power; the basic themes of the movie as discussed in your sections. Karakorum Marco Polo on Hangzhou
Chola Kingdom Vijavanagar kingdom Brahmins; Kshatriyas; Vaishyas; Shudras; Dalits (the Untouchables) Mansa Musa The lion prince Sundiata Sunjata (Epic story from your Reader) Tamerlane William of Ockham (significance of Introduction and A Letter to the Friars Minor in the Course Reader: will discuss this in class on May 3 rd, Tuesday)
Dante (1265-1321) & Beatrice Portinari (1266-1290) Magna Carta Boroughs Champaign Fairs Lex Mercatoria Sultanate of Delhi Bakhti Movement Dhows and Junks
Ibn Batuta "Indian Poetry After Islam : Main mofits and themes in Kabir s poetry Chennakesava Temple (at Somanathapura) Kerala (practiced Polyandry) Zhou Daguan (on Ankor society and women) Zheng He The Legacy of the Song dynasty Japan s Classical Age and the concept of Shogunate
Hermit Kingdom (Kingdom of Goryeo) Yi Song-Gye (founder of Choson (Yi) dynasty, longest imperial dynasty: 1392-1910) Lynn Hunt on chronology and BC/AD dating system
Choose one out of 5 questions Concepts (Essay Questions)
Explain Southernization and its significance to global history.
Review Lynn Hunt s account of history and her objections to history as chronology in: Time Historical? and Modernity and History. Southernization: its significance in world history; remember to contextualize or contrast the concept to westernization Hodgson s notion of interrelated history: go over key concepts in that essay such as Islamicate and Persianate
African society and politics: its social structure. Sub-Saharan African economy: study its main features in transregional terms The significance of European Guilds: the role of merchants and cities The role the Vikings played in the integration of Eurasia (see also the lectures on nomads)
Significance of the Song legacy: primarily economy (market economy), but also military and technology Significance of the Medieval European courtly love (review Sir Gawain and the Green Knight story from your Course Reader) Caste, Political Society and gender in Medieval India
Gender in Medieval Europe: Monastic movements William of Ockham (review his writings on the separation between political and religious institutions) The importance of Italian cities like Florence, Venice, etc. Ibn Khaldun and his decay theory and assabiyya
Significance of the Scholastic movement in Medieval Europe Significance of the nomadic movements (Mongols; Turks;Vikings) in the late medieval period Black death and transregional epidemics: its impact on Europe, including economy, demography, politics, culture and religion. Make sure you review Black Death: Afro- Eurasia, 1346-1350,
The Name of the Rose : its significance; what book went missing? Ibn al-athir and Juvaini and their accounts of Mongols Ibn Batuta s account on the expansion of Islam. Review how Ibn Battuta understood the spread of Islam in in the regions where he travelled.
What book is lost?
Aristotle
1230 Recovery of Aristotle"On the Soul
Thomas Aquinas1225 7 March 1274
Scholasticism a method of critical thoughtthe Fusion of Faith and Reason
Rise of Scholastics Proto-Empirical Studies William of Ockham (1288 - c. 1348) Franciscan Friar Parismony: motion is not a distinct thing but is only the moving object. Nominalism: Abstracts do not exist, only product of human mind. Also Conceptualism.
William of Ockham (1288 - c. 1348)
logical method Nominalism
"UCSD student"
Occam's razor Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected
church/state separation complete separation of spiritual rule and earthly rule
Franciscan Monastery
University Rise of Universities in Europe. 1158 1167
Al-Azhar University Cairo
Chair of a department
Alchemy and chemistry Astronomy and mathematics Earliest Experimental Sciences: Ibn al-haythami Book of Optics 1021 Hospitals.
Agricultural Revolution Development of new crops (Spain): sugar cane, rice, citrus fruit, apricots, cotton, artichokes, and saffron. Rise of Sugar mills. Move away from manual to mechanical technologies. Laid the foundation for the industrial revolution in the 18 th century.
Societal Transformations Rise of Monetary market economy: capital accumulation. Changes in feudal society: Lords, vassal, fief. Crop-based economy.
Transregional epidemics Trade routes that connected the Mongol empire with Europe through Genoese trading posts
Black Death 1346-53 Host, Vector, and agent Yersinia Pestis bacterium Oriental rat flee
Bubo red swelling result of a swollen and infected lymph node
Air polluted by humid weather or decaying bodied unburied (or fumes) Plague Doctors Community plague doctors Holds scented substances
Spread 1331 spread from Central Asia Silk road 1347 Crimea: reached Europe China: killed around half of the human population greatest public health disaster in recorded history Europe lost an estimated one quarter to one third of its population, pre-antibiotic era: 50% to 90% mortality rate Sense of deep demographic transformation
Not in Scandinavia, India and Sub-Saharan Africa Why? 1) Patterns of migration, trade, travel. 2) Interaction between humans and animals. 3) Climate factors.
Sedlec Ossuary
Kaffa Seaport on the Crimean Peninsula Controlled by a group of merchants from Genoa (supervised by the Mongols, controlling the Golden Horde). 1343 Mongols come to Kaffa to take Italians who allegedly had killed a Muslim in Tana Siege of the city
The Mongol army became infected with the Black Death