1 PART 3: THE POST-CLASSICAL ERA Pages 108 – 115 I. SUMMARY A. The Chronology of the Post-Classical Period The stage for the Post-Classical Era was set by the same developments that ended its predecessor – the decline and end of classical empires. Capped by invasions of nomadic peoples...
After the fall of Rome, Europe fell into a period of economic stagnation and political disunity. Power shifted from a centralized state to local rulers within a feudal system. Most of Europe remained decentralized throughout the post-classical era, whichstalled innovation and economic production inth...
The world civilization map was altered greatly by the declineor collapse of the classical civilizations and by nomadic invasions. The postclassical era closed as new central Asian invasions once again changed patterns. Another phase of world development opened as new empires formed and Europeans ...
600 CE – 1450 CE Post Classical Era Himalayan Region Land-Based Empires Founding of Islam 600 CE – 1450 CE Improved transportation technologies and commercial practices led to an increased volume of trade, and expanded the geographical range of existing and newly active trade networks. The growth...
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INDIA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN BASIN THE POST-CLASSICAL WORLDS OF SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA NORTHERN INDIA North India –Tension among regional kingdoms –Nomadic Turks became absorbed into Indian society Introduction of Islam to northern India –The Sind were conquered by Arab Muslims in 711 (Umayyad...
70. Simple Minds –Empires and Dance (1980; Zoom/Virgin) Had either Billy Idol or Bryan Ferry not rejected requests to record “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” for John Hughes’The Breakfast Club, it’s possible Simple Minds never would have become household names, though they were certainl...
This is telling for the intellectual movement of his era.[26] Like many other Carolingians, his reuse did not confer “classical” or privileged status upon the Greek and Roman texts of antiquity, but prioritized a different set of texts, both qualitatively and quantitatively. In this way, ...
The aim of the war is to establish “a United South Africa, of one of the great empires (rijken) of the world… an Afrikaans republic in South Africa stretching from Table Bay to the Zambesi”. On the British front, Joseph Chamberlain concludes his speech to Parliament on the eve of war...
In fact, I think the new era is simply too different to fit into the classical frame of good and evil. That frame is based on the idea of isolated, immutable minds connected by tenuous, low-bandwith links. But the post-Singularity world does fit with the larger tradition of change and ...