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What are our three major themes?
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Statebuilding
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Increase and spread of religion
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Increase contact and trade
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How did China forcing the wealthy to live in the capital, affect Statebuilding?
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The wealthy being forced to live in the capital, helps to offset the power of the wealthy, which helps to strengthen the state.
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What normally happens when a country is attempting to practice Statebuilding, but there is a wealthy elite?
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The wealthy elite normally have a strong influence over the state, so the country has to offset the power of the elites, in order to establish and sustain their own power.
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Why was it harder for Europe to practice Statebuilding, than China?
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-Europe lacked a unifying language.
-People in Europe spoke multiple different languages.
-China had a unifying language.
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-Europe didn't have a centralized government.
-Europe had multiple states, that all competed for power.
-China did have a centralized government.
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-Europe was attacked from all directions by Norsemen, Maygars, and Muslims which interrupts their practice of Statebuilding.
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How does Europe use religious reformation in order to practice state building?
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Having everyone conform to a single religion is an effort toward unifying the belief of the state, in order to unify the state itself.
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How did Europe being attacked by Norsemen, Maygars, and Muslims affect their contact and trade with others, as well as their practice of Statebuilding?
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-Being attacked by all sides, interrupted their ability to practice Statebuilding.
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-Europe being attacked from all sides, made Europe have less interactions with the outside world. This decreased Europe's contact and trade with the rest of the world.
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What was the date of the Crusades?
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What were the differences between Muslim and European Cities?
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Muslim cities are clean, you can buy whatever you want, they are huge, there are tons of schools, practiced Islam and people bathe.
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Europeans didn't bathe, they didn't have huge cities, they didn't have schools, practiced Christianity, and they couldn't buy whatever they wanted to.
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Why did Europe declare that they wanted to take the Iberian Peninsula?
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It was an effort for spreading Christianity in order to help unify the state based on religious beliefs.
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This increased European contact with other states, as they spread out in an attempt to conquer not only the beliefs of the Iberian Peninsula, but the also the land itself in order to physically expand the state.
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How is Feudalism great Statebuilding?
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Statebuilding is about establishing a unified community, in which a leader is expected to protect the people, and the people help to support the power.
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Feudalism allows for lords to set aside land and protection for individuals, and in return you rule over them and can assemble your own knights in order to fight for you.
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How did Feudalism hurt Statebuilding?
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The small governments generated by Lords, prevent the unification of the state. Each Lords' power now must be offset, in order to unify the state.
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What is a big difference between Government officials in China and Government officials in Europe?
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In China government officials are scholars, while in Europe Vassals who are warriors and nobles are government officials.
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How did agricultural advancements like the Mold board plow, help Europe practice Statebuilding and increase contact and trade?
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Agricultural technological advancements help to increase the production of food, which allows the state to sustain more people, which helps to grow the state.
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In order to spread farther across Europe, agricultural advancements have to be made in order for food to be cultivated in areas with different types of soil.
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Agricultural advancements help to make farming easier, so less people have to farm for a living, which means more people can devote their time to trade and other occupations rather than to farming.
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Charter corporations were able to make people city founders in Europe, allowing them to administer their own taxes. Serfs could escape to these cities for a year and a day in order to become free. Many of these city founders became bureaucrats. How did this affect Statebuilding?
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City-founders helped to offset the power of nobles.
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More cities began to develop which helped to grow the state.
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A bureaucracy formed which helped to establish organized government.
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What was the period of the Little Ice Age?
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1300 to 1850
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What made the Black Plague so bad?
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Charters caused city building to develop more rapidly. More people lived near each other, in a smaller area.
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The Little Ice Age occurred which caused less crops to grow, which caused a famine.
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Europeans didn't bathe, and their cities weren't clean, and the Little Ice Age made everyone cold which weakens their immune system.
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What were the benefits of surviving the Black Plague?
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Gaining the wealth and property of all who died of the plague.
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What is the result of the Peasant's revolt?
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Serfs are allowed to move freely
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What was the impact of Jews and Christians being segregated in the work place, and in the residential area?
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This prevented the state from being fully unified, which hurts Statebuilding.
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