Southernization Timeline
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Updated: 3 Jan 2018
AP World History Extra Credit Assignment
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Created byEthan Sirlouis
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Egypt becomes an important overseas
market for Indian cottons.Initial existence of Indian
influence on parts of East AfricaMalay sailors had reached the eastern coast of AfricaMalay sailors began to ride the
monsoons,Malay sailors could be found two-thirds of the way around the world, from Easter Island to East AfricaSouthern India begins supplying the
Mediterranean with large quantities of pepper.travelers begin to use a new all-sea
route to Chinathe fine spices begin to assume importance on international markets.Indians discovered how to crystallize sugarThe oldest extant treatise that uses the zero in the modern way by Aryabhata’s text on astronomy,gunpowder was first used as an igniter in a flamethrowersouthern China was well on its way to becoming the most prosperous and most commercial part of the empirePrinting seems to have developed within the walls of Buddhist monasteries betweenthe earliest evidence of a cannon or bombardVarious prototypes of the compass had existed in ChinaSilk had been joined by a true porcelain as important trade productsArab cavalries conquered eastern and southern Mediterranean and the Sassanian empireArabs went on to conquer Spain and
Turko-Iranian areas of Central Asia, as well as northwestern India.sugarcane had become an important crop in Yemen; in Arabian oases; in irrigated areas of Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, and the Mahgrib; in Spain; and on Mediterranean islands controlled by Muslims.cotton becomes a major crop in the lands of the caliphate, from Iran and Central Asia to Spain and the Mediterranean islands.Al-Kharazmi introduced Indian mathematics to the Arabic-reading world in his Treatise on Calculation with the Hindu Numeralssouthernization reached its zenithmajor transformations in the distribution of power, wealth, and prestige in both hemispheresMali had created an empire even larger
than Ghana’sGenoese helped the
Byzantines to retake Constantinople from the VenetiansFrancis Bacon observed the
“force and virtue and consequences of discoveries,” he singled out
three technologies in particular that “have changed the whole
face and state of things throughout the world.” These were all
Chinese inventions—the compass, printing, and gunpowder.Arabs who introduced the compass to
Mediterranean watersthere were thousands of
these Asian slaves in every major Italian cityThe plague had broken out first in ChinaPlague reached a Black Sea port, whence it made its way to the
Middle East and EuropeUnder Turkish auspices Islam was spreading into eastern Europe, a
development marked by the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople
in 1453.the Dutch seized Portuguese trading posts in the MoluccasPeriods
Cotton was first domesticated in the Indus River valleyMAURYAN EMPIRE'S the search
for new sources of bullion,Buddhism spreads through China during regional kingdom rule following Fall of HanMongols’ control of overland routes
fostered unprecedented contacts between Europeans and peoples
from those areas that had long been southernized.
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