3.2
Continuity and Innovation of State Forms and Their Interactions
Empires began to fall and become reconstituted.
Sources of power and legitimacy:
Innovations:
New forms of government were seen in
Borrowing of traditions:
Technological and cultural transfers were caused by conflicts and contacts between states and empires.
Continuity and Innovation of State Forms and Their Interactions
Empires began to fall and become reconstituted.
Sources of power and legitimacy:
- patriarchy
- religion
- landowning elites.
Innovations:
- new methods of taxation
- tributary systems
- adaption of religious institutions.
New forms of government were seen in
- The Mongol Khanates
- Islamic states: Abbasids, Muslim Iberia, Delhi Sultanates.
- City states- The Italian peninsula, East Africa, Southeast Asia, the Americas.
Borrowing of traditions:
- Islamic states were influenced by Persian traditions.
- Japan was influenced by Chinese traditions.
Technological and cultural transfers were caused by conflicts and contacts between states and empires.
- Tang China and the Abbasids.
- The Mongol empires.
- The Crusades
Crusades. Digital image. Kevin DeYoung Yeah Well But What About the Crusades Comments. N.p., 09 Feb. 2015. Web. 27 Apr. 2015. <http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevindeyoung/2015/02/09/what-about-the-crusades/>.