3.3
Increased Economic Productive Capacity and Its Consequences
Innovations helped to increase industrial and agricultural production.
Examples
Crops were taken from a region with a certain climate and moved to a different region with the same climate because the demand for them was so high.
Production of textiles and porcelains increased from.
Causes of the falling empires and states
Urban revival contributions
greater labor organizations such as
Women, such as the Mongols, and women in West Africa, Japan, and Southeast Asia were beginning to rise.
Some religions, specifically Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and Neo-Confucianism, changed the view of both genders.
Extra:
Islam and China were the Great powers during this time period. This was the time period that included the Mongols, and black death which created many new religions and faiths.
Increased Economic Productive Capacity and Its Consequences
Innovations helped to increase industrial and agricultural production.
Examples
- The horse collar
- terrence farming techniques
- Champa rice
- Chinampa field system
Crops were taken from a region with a certain climate and moved to a different region with the same climate because the demand for them was so high.
Production of textiles and porcelains increased from.
- Chinese, Indian, and Persian artists and merchants.
Causes of the falling empires and states
- Invasions
- disease
- decline of agricultural activity
- the little ice age
Urban revival contributions
- end of invasions
- safe and reliable transportation
- rise of commerce and warmer temperatures
- increased agricultural activity
greater labor organizations such as
- free peasant agriculture
- nomadic pastoralism, craft production, guild organization, coerced labour, unfree labor, government-imposed labor taxes, military obligations-
Women, such as the Mongols, and women in West Africa, Japan, and Southeast Asia were beginning to rise.
Some religions, specifically Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and Neo-Confucianism, changed the view of both genders.
Extra:
Islam and China were the Great powers during this time period. This was the time period that included the Mongols, and black death which created many new religions and faiths.
Black Death. Digital image. N.p., n.d. Web. <http://uweb.cas.usf.edu/~dslone/Pathfinders/dockray.html>.
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