AP World History Compare and Contrast Chapter 12 Notes – Flashcards

-Both continued earlier patterns of state building

-China had a unified, centralized government while Europe had many independent, separate states -Western Europe fought constantly, had lots of war while China had nothing similar disturbing them

-Both had a renewed cultural blossoming -Both had important works of writing (China has Encyclopedia, Europe had The Prince) -Religion has a significant role in their culture

-China returns to glorious past while Europe moves away from past

-Both has maritime exploration

-China had a much bigger fleet and more crew members than Europe -Different motivations, China wanted tribute from other countries, Europe wanted money, power, and to build a big empire by conquering other regions -China ended voyages abruptly, Europe continued voyages

-Both predecessors were from MesoAmerica -Draw traditions from toltecs teotuhuacan

- Rags-to-riches, modest people create large empires -Both had similar gender system, practiced "gender parallelism", or women and men operate in separate but equivalent spheres, each gender enjoying autonomy in its own sphere -loosely structured unstable conquest states -internal trade -conquered people give tribute -sacrificial -rebellions -quipu -long distance trade

Islam was introduced and became one of the popular religions in the region because merchants introduced it and it solidified brought Sufi holymen Unity Economic prosperity Golden age

-Christianity provided a common religious culture for people from England to Russia. -Although Buddhism largely vanished from its South Asian homeland, it remained a link among China, Korea, Tibet, Japan, and parts of Southeast Asia. -Islam brought together its people because of the hajj since Africans, Arabs, Persians, Turks, Indians, and many others joined as one people as they rehearsed together the events that gave birth to their common faith.

-Indian Ocean Basin -Silk Road -Trans-Saharan -Mediterranean

-Previously separate worlds of Afro-Eurasia, Americas, and Pacific Oceania became inextricably linked -Webs of communication and exchange have progressively deepened -Industrialization is the core feature of a radically new kind of human society -Industrialization causes humans to create wealth

Technological: -Modern science is challenged by religious traditions and folk traditions -Industrialization causes humans to create wealth -Increase in literate people Demographic: -population increase Political: governed by states that were more powerful and intrusive than earlier states and empires, offered more people an opportunity to participate in government -More centralized

-European empires spanned the globe -European peoples created new societies all across the Americas and as far away as Australia and New Zealand -European languages were spoken and their Christian religion was widely practiced throughout the Americas and in parts of Asia and Africa -Their businessmen bought, sold, and produced goods around the world