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Dante
The divine Comedy (1308-1320) view of the afterlife
India and religion
Vedanta and buddhism
Idealist
Weber Ideas drive modernization/ideology is very important
Parts of the world system
West africa-Eatser island
Farmer and Cosmology
Wisdom traditions are constant, College and him find the same things, Humans bio make up leads to us creating similar things Cosmology from all cultures is the same or similar
Gender in Mesopotamia
Women slaves because they are more plentiful and valuable
Near east and religion
Zoroastrianism and judaism
Trends of agrarian civilizations
accumulate and decline, population growth, expanding states, commercialization and urbanization,
Aztec and China formative ideas
adapted old formative ideas
Islam formative ideas
based on new formative ideas
Types of exchange networks
bulk goods, political military networks, prestige good networks, information networks
Agrarian civilizations
cities and towns, literate, systems of religion, armies, hierarchal power, wider surrounding, hierarchical networks of exchange
Hierarchies in argon civilizations
class and power, geography arrangement of networks
Hodgson on Islam
commitment to formative ideas and focus on the elites in politics and religion
Easiest way to wealth?
conquest, rulers use force, production and trade left to lower classes, commercial investment was a meager
Lewis and China
continuity and change in imperial geography, focuses on complex political, economic, technological environmental factors
Genesis and Exodus in Hebrew
creation and destruction of man
Confucian cosmology
diagram of supreme polarity (yin yang)
Exchange and commerce
efficiency and constant, merchants and rulers, hub regions, areas like china Egypt, Europe, India
Writing reinforces power?
establishes social control, law and system of codes, theology and religions power, writing inform values that are important to the area, in rome honor is the main goal
Afro Eurasian
extensive trade between the two areas
China
factors of development, state, social classes, agricultural technology, environmental and population, water use
Geographic Economic
geography will benefit the economics of a country, MATCHES BIG HISTORY, (the nile river and Egypt)
Hubs of trade
greece 500 BCE, Suez canal persian empire.
Islamic civilization
group of people with the same ideas, Middle east, diverse language, roots in heartland, FIRST CIVILIZATION to build off of religion,
Writing and power
hockey stick curve, scribes and social control(law) Hammurabi, ideology and wisdom professionals benefit
Neural patterning in belief system
how the brain works and the religious philosophical link to the brain
Agrarian civilization islam and aztec
large societies based on agriculture w/ states and all applies
Achaemenid empire
persia 550-330 BCE first world empire
Types of state power
political, military, economic, ideological
Malthusian Cycle
recourses will limit the population growths Shortage-increased conflict/declining health-population crash-innovation?-increased recourses- Population growth-environmental deprivation
Coasts good for exchange
silk road ad steppes, trade goes through suez canal
Chronological synoptic look at history
study of civilizations that come before us
Formative ideals
study of ideas and where they come from/how they spread (Hammurabi code)
Aztecs
sudden rise, control central america, city states, 1100-1500, sung god and the serpent is the god above all, must sacrifice
Window on complexity
the human brain is influenced by the scribes
Smith on Aztecs
total synopsis of empire history, uses written sources and archaeology
Rome formative ideas
withstood complet shift of ideas
Women and power
Child careers, cooks, weavers, brewers, prostitutes, Best most valuable slaves
Geographic
Columbus, Recourses available will lead to modernization, Coal in GB leads to modernization/location is important
China and religion
Confucianism
Rome
Constantine the great 306-337, Med sea, christianity=best, no written sources so no sincerity of constantine
Men and power
Farmers, herders, merchants, tradesmen, soldiers, scribes, priests
Big man
Great leader after great leader, work to much society alone, not ignoring culture or social concern
Vasiliev and Rome
Great man theory, religion and power are highlighted
Social Structure
Karl Marx Social structure drive modernization
Buddhist Cosmology
Mandala 31 planes of the universe (10 commandments)
Chokia
Mississippian city, 900-1300, 10,000-20,000 people, most north city of Mexico
Geography of china
North and south, capital, mountains and planes, south=better, water and canals were made shipping is the main focus
Greece and Rome
Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism (Later Christianity and islam)
positive feedback loop
Population growth-Information exchange-Innovation-Increased resources-Population Growth
World system of the 13th century
Southernazation, result=world system because of world trade and interaction of countries, spread of material wealth, market system created, spices/sugar/tea/indigo/coffee
Before language was structure thought
Syntax, planning, chains of logic, games with rules, narrative, music and discovery of hidden patterns
Expanding states (dilemma of ruling)
Tax heavy more income tax light more production
St Bonaventure Book IV of the sentences of peter Lombard
1275-1300 CE
Ebstorf Mappa Mundi
13th center CE map of city with jesus around it
Francesco di Giorgio Martini Church floor plan
1470 describes the perfect proportions of man
Leonardo Da Vinci Vitruvian man
1490 describes the perfect proportions of man
Bosch the Garden of earthly delights
1490-1510 describes the creation story
Picos fractal Cosmology
1579 all things exist within all things (ben diagram
Han dynasty
206-220 BCE
Edict of Milan
313, makes christianity the religion of the empire
council of Nicaea
325, the bishops met to unify the empire in Constantinople
Tang Dynasty
618-907 BCE
Axial Age
8th-3rd century, first religious founders and philosophers
Commercial
Adam Smith, Market and capitalism and trade routes re important
