1500 A.D. Political, Cultural, and Economic Conditions

1500 A.D. Political, Cultural, and Economic

Conditions

Agenda 9/5/2013

• Collect Course Outlines and work on Warm-up• Discuss Current Event• Notes and Map Activity• Primary Documents about World in 1500• Wrap up• Homework- Personal Narrative

Essential Learning Questions

• What were the major states and empires in the Eastern and Western Hemisphere around 1500?

• What were the dominant religions and their locations around 1500?

• Where were the major trade routes around 1500?

Major States and Empires in the Eastern Hemisphere around 1500 A.D

•England•France•Spain•Russia•Ottoman Empire

PersiaChinaMughal IndiaSonghai Empire.

(Africa)

Empires in the Western Hemisphere around 1500 A.D

• Incan Empire• Mayan Empire• Aztec Empire

Five Religions•By 1500 A.D., the five world religions had spread to many areas of the Eastern Hemisphere.

Five Religions and Concentration• Judaism—Europe and the Middle East• Christianity—Europe and the Middle East• Islam—Parts of Asia, Africa, and

southern Europe• Hinduism—India and part of Southeast

Asia• Buddhism—East and Southeast Asia

Trade

By 1500, regional trade patterns had developed that linked Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.

Trading Patterns around 1500 A.D

•Silk roads across Asia to the Mediterranean basin

•Maritime routes across the Indian Ocean

•Trans-Saharan routes across North Africa

Trading Patterns around 1500 A.D (Continued)

•Northern European links with the Black Sea

•Western European sea and river trade

•South China Sea and lands of Southeast Asia

By 1500 A.D., technological and scientific advancements had been exchanged among cultures of the world.

AdvancementsTechnological and Scientific

Technological and Scientific Advancements •Paper, compass, silk, porcelain (China)

•Textiles, numeral system (India and Middle East)

•Scientific transfer—medicine, astronomy, mathematics

Five Religions and Concentration• Which of these religions had spread to

other places than where it was in the 1500’s and why?

Trade

How did people travel along the Silk Road? At the time were there other trade routes?

Technological and Scientific Advancements •The transfer of scientific and intellectual ideas indicates what about human contact?