AP World History ReviewPeriod 3: Regional and Trans-Regional Interactionsc. 600 CE – c. 1450 CE

Bill StricklandEast Grand Rapids High SchoolEast Grand Rapids, MIbstrickl@egrps.org

KC 3.1 Expansion & Intensification of Communication & Exchange Networks

Improved transportation technologies & commercial practices led to increased trade volume, & expanded geog range of trade networks

Movement of peoples caused linguistic & environmental effects

KC 3.1 Expansion & Intensification of Communication & Exchange Networks

Exchange fostered by intensification of existing, or creation of new networks

Continuity: diffusion of crops & pathogens through E Hemisphere along trade routes.

KC 3.2 Continuity & Innovationof State Forms & their Interactions

Empires collapsed & reconstituted; in some regions new state forms emerged.

Inter-regional contacts & conflicts btwn states/empires encouraged significant technological & cultural transfersbtwn Tang China & Abbasidsacross Mongol empires/khanatesduring the Crusades

KC 3.3 Increased Economic ProductiveCapacity & Its Consequences

Innovations stimulated agric & industrial production

Fate of cities varied greatlyPeriods of significant decline/increased

urbanization buoyed by rising productivity/expanding trade

KC 3.3 Increased Economic ProductiveCapacity & Its Consequences

Continuities: Social structures shaped by class/caste Patriarchy persisted; however, women exercised

more power/influence (Mongols & W Africa, Japan & SE Asia) Methods of Production

free peasant agriculture nomadic pastoralism craft production/guilds coerced/unfree labor gov’t imposed labor taxes military obligations

KC 3.3 Increased Economic ProductiveCapacity & Its Consequences

Changes in labor management & effects of religious conversion on gender relations & family life Diffusion of Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Neo-

Confucianism led to significant changes in gender relations/family structure.

New forms of coerced labor appeared: serfdom in Europe & Japan Incan mit’a Free peasants resisted attempts to raise dues and

taxes by staging revolts Demand for slaves for military & domestic purposes

increased