Post-classical+Unit

=Post Classical Era= Islam

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Western Europe Tang and Song China Japan,Korea and Vietnam Mongols Changing Balance Of World Power =1. **__Notes On New Religious Map:__**= ====*The big changes in the period 500-1450 did not involve political boundaries, but did involve the spread of the major world religions such as Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. These religions spread across political and cultural borders and made new systems of trade that connected much of Asia, Africa, and Europe.====


 * Many religious leaders looked down onmerchants as likely to be seduced from a life of piety by the lure of wealth. Trading often disseminate religion, and confidence in a divine order helped merchants to take risks.


 * During the postclassical period, systematic international trade developement that went far beyond the carrying capacity of the Silk Road. The Indian Ocean and mediterranean Sea were the hubs of this trade, which brought northwestern Europe, west africa, Japan, and other regions into the existing east- west trade routes between China and Egypt.


 * As it name indicates, the postclassical period followed the decline of the great classical empires. A second effect of the decline of the classical empires was the collapse of established boundaries.

=__2. ESPIRIT Chart Arabian Society Before Islam__=
 * Expanding trade encouraged the development of better ships and new navigational devices.

**E:**he safety of trade routes on which the towns depended was in the hands of the nomadic tribes that lived along the vulnerable caravan routes to the north and south.

 * S:** The population of the Arabian Peninsula was divided into rival tribes and clans that worshiped local gods.
 * P:** After the death of Muhammad, Calpin Abu Bakr became ruler of Mecca which then trigured the Ridda Wars in Arabia. After that, there were the early Musilim conquests in the Byzantine Empire.
 * I:**The most important of these cities was mecca located in the montanious region along the Red Sea on the Western Coast of Arabia.
 * R:** In 600 C.E, Muhammad made his first revelations for religion, and in 613 C.E, he began to preach the new faith. Most of the town dwellers were like the nomads in terms of religion.
 * I:** The struggle for substinance in the unfogiving Arabioan enviornment resulted in a strong dependance on and loyalty to ones family and clan
 * T:** People in Arabia had a transcontinental trading system that stretched from the meditterranean to East Asia.

=__3. 5 Pillars of Islam__=

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=__4. Summary On Notes From Movie__= Muhammad deemed "The Messenger" was born in 570 A.D in Saudia Arabia in the city of Mecca. His parents passed away when he was only 5 years old. Muhammad managed to get along quite well with many other tribes in Mecca, all claiming him to be one of their own. The most important people in Tribes were the poets who were the people responsible for linking back to their ancestors with poetry and telling fellow Tribe members about the ancestors stories of how they lived back then. During this time Muhammads uncles taught him how to protect himself if anyone were to ever want to come after Muhammad. This because survival without a Tribe is not guaranteed. Back then, as a food source water was very valuable and important, due to the fact that it only rained once or twice in Europe every year. For each clan, they had their own Gods and Toties. One place that brought sacred closure within Mecca was Cabba, which made Mecca the center for trade. Cabba had mixed religions and culure.

=**__Notes on Fall Of Empire__**=
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 * ROME

__**Decline: **__This was caused because of internal and external mixtures and also Factors of Eastern and Western portions of the empire after the fall of Rome were developed differently || CHINA

__**Decline: **__Internal weakness and invasions caused the decline to happen || INDIA

__**Decline: **__ Internal weakness and invasions caused the decline to happen || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">Declining population <span style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Failier //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">to recruit effective armies <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">Brutality and arbitrariness many Roman emperors <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">Tax collection revenue decreased as residents of the empire fell on hard times. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">Life became difficult for the Roman lower class creating despair and a pervasive ( to become spread throughout all parts) despondency( depression from loss of hope) over the futility of life ( questioning survivability). <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">Political confusion led to weak emperors and disputes over the throne <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">Influence in choosing the emperor by the army complicated political life and contributed to the decrease in power from the top || <span style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Central government **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> power diminished <span style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Bureaucrats **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> became more corrupt giving power to landlord <span style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">landlords **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> started new taxes and demands from the already overly taxed free peasants <span style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">social unrest **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> from peasants losing their farms, becoming day laborers and some having to sell their children into service led to the revolution by Daoism in 184 c.e <span style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Yellow Turbans **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">( Daonist leaders) attack with disclosing the emperor’s weakness and the corruptness of the bureaucracy <span style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">30,000 students **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> protested,but failed ending the revolution <span style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Political ineffectiveness **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> and **epidemics** toppled the Han China leading to three centuries of chaos || <span style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Emperors Of Guptas: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">failed to control local princes causing political fragmentation <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">Invasions by nomadic peoples (probably Han tribes) pressed into northern parts of India <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">Invaders penetrated deeper into India destroying the Gupta Empire in central India <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">Many invaders integrated into the warrior caste of India forming a ruling group of princes ||
 * * <span style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tabstops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Symptoms of decay **