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C7C8 Study Guide
Chapter-7
Natural resources in the Sahara; relay trade; disease on the Silk Roads; Compare and contrast Silk Roads
with Sea Roads of Indian Ocean; luxury goods on Eurasian exchange; Silk Road changes in Buddhism;
what facilitated trade; influenced the Swahili civilization; inhibitor of American long-distance trade;
prevented a merchant class from emerging; contact between Mesoamerica and the Andes; West African
states; rise of Islam and 7th century Indian Ocean commerce; control of economic exchange; trade and
pastoral peoples; Silk Road trade and Chinese peasants; spread of Black Death from China to Europe;
technology and Indian Ocean commerce; increased and expanded trade in the Indian Ocean basin;
Indianization of Southeast Asia; Swahili political structures; Swahili and interior peoples; networks of
exchange in the Americas; interactions with Afro-Eurasian world; international silk trade; Map 7.2;
Chapter-8
Social developments after collapse of the Han Dynasty; Population during Tang and Song; why the
Golden Age; Tribute system; restriction of women’s lives in Song Dynasty; Northern Nomads; China’s
relationship with Korea; China’s economic revolution (Tang and Song); Xiongnu, Uighurs, Khitan; and
Jurchen (commonalities); technology spread from China; growth of Buddhism in China; masculine
identity in the Song Dynasty; political contributions of S & T; Tang and the western barbarians; Korea,
Japan, and Vietnam unique systems; Japan borrows from China; Chinese inventions stimulate
innovation; printing in China; emergence of Samuri in Japan; religion and cultural commonality;
modification of Indian Buddhism; Chinese environment and Buddhism; Map 8.5;
Document 8.1 - “When the superior acts, the inferior yields compliance” ???
Document 8.2 – uniqueness of Japan
Document 8.3 – the disdain and scorn of Shonagon
Document 8.4 – “as you do not understand the arts of peace, your skill in the arts of war will not, in the
end, achieve victory” . meaning
Visual source 8.2 A question that focuses on the Empress. How is she distinguished?