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Economic depression in the countryside combined with recurring epidemics in central and southern China kept Chinese populations down.
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Shi'ite doctrine says that all temporal rulers, were only temporary stand ins for the Hidden Imam. Some Shi'ite scholars taught the faithful to accept the world as it was and wait quietly for the Hidden's return. Cerca 1500-1600
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Shi'ism affected popular psychology. Annual commemorations of the martyrdom of Imam Husayn, regularized an emotional outpouring.
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It 1502, a 16 year old proclaimed himself Shah of Iran and declared that from the that time forward until his realm was devoted to Shi'ite Islam.
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Ishmail converts the Safavid Empire to Shi'ite Muslim which automatically puts it at odds with its Sunni neighbors, a conflict that is still going on to this day.
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Art became a turning point in the Mughal empire, art allianced the countries Iran, Afghan, Mughal, and central asia together
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The Ottoman army wins a over Safavid forces in a battle in eastern Anatolia. The Ottoman then take and temporarily occupy the Safavid capital, forcing them to relocate their capital further east.
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The effect from the conversion to Shi'ite caused a deep chasm between Iran and its Sunni Muslim neighbors. Since the 7th century, Iran became truly a separate country. Cerca before 1550
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The Russian Empire nearly quadrupled its original size through military campaigns and exploration. They had a small portion of Eastern Europe in 1533, and by 1796 they had all of North Asia including Siberia, and they expanded West too.
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Injong 1544–1545
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This gave the Tsar more respect because it was used earlier to talk about the great Mongolian Empire. It makes him seem more powerful.
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The Ashikage Shogunate was weakened after the Onin War, this left an opening for daimyo across Japan to fight for land and influence. This would eventually cause three warlords to emerge and gradually take over parts of Japan. This was in cerca 1550-1590
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This is a turning point because Africa has joined alliances with Islam rather than Europe which proceeds to the Islamic expansion.
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China begins trade with the Portuguese, opening up trade with Europe, for the first time since the rise of the Ottoman Empire, leading to massive economic gains.
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In the late 1500's, Hideyoshi was born and as he got older, he rose though the ranks and was eventually warrior and was able to unify Japan.
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A son was born which intertwined the Muslim and Hindu faiths in the Mughal Empire
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After 30 years Li Shizhen completes the Compendium of Materia Medica, a book detailing more than 18,000 Chinese medicines and 11,000 formulas for treating diseases. This greatly advances medical technology and massively benefits China.
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Islamic culture aligned the middle east as one, all of these empires, including the Mughal, either believed in hinduism or islam, which helped them to become great allies in times of war
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one of the bloodiest events of the choson period in Korea
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This is a turning point because now that North Africa has become part of the Islamic expansion, North Africa opens up as a strong trading establishment that can be used towards the expansion of Islam.
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This is a turning point because now that the Ottoman empire has conquered most of North Africa, the islamic expansion has spread from across the world which allows it to spread even further due to the spread of religion in these communtities.
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Like I said before, because of North Africa being conquered by the Ottomans, the muslim reliogion in North Africa is spreading south covering all of Africa
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A war breaking a 200 year period of peace
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A seven year long war that has a lasting effect on Korea and lead to the fall of the Ming Dynasty in China.
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Shah Abbas transfers the Safavid capital to Isfahan in southern Iran where he builds a new city right next to the old one. This becomes his great architecture project and becomes a big part of what the culture is known for.
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Because of this, Ottomans are able to get the goods they want, and keep goods from other interfering communities.
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Because of this, the Ottomans have conquered trade, and the slave trade in Africa, now that the Islamic state has slaves, they can use it towards their army because slaves in the middle east were either soldiers or servants.
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This is a turning point because Morcco has 150,000 African slaves included in their army which can help the Islamic State conquer the world.
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This is a turning point because Islam has been sent over 850000 slaves which can help the Islamic state prosper and conquer Eurasia.
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This was a turning point because the Ottoman empire, and islamic states had a great location because their near Africa and a long the coast. This can spread trade and people to help the Islamic State.
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This is a turning point because the Ottoman empire had a really bad agriculture because of their desert location that their economic status could not keep up with Europe"s, so Europe always had more advantages than the Ottoman Empire did
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High achievements in artisan-ship in 1600-1700. Japanese steel making, pottery, and lacquer were just some of the achievements.
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It 1603 Tokugawa Ieyuasa asserted his dominance over the other diamyo and he was later able to establish a new military regime called Tokugawa Shogunate.
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Trade between the well-maintained road between Edo and the imperial capital of Kyoto promoted the development of the Japanese and economy and the development of trading centers.
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Abbas reformed the Safavid military and defeated the Turks, regaining all the land they had formerly seized. This raised Iran to the status of great power.
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The economic integration proved to be a very important feature of Tokugawa Japan. Since the other daimyo were required to visit Edo frequently because of the shoguns, good roads and the maritime transport linked the city to the caste town on three of Japan's four main islands. Cerca 1603-1610
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Th e peace at this time forced the warrior class to adapt to the growing bureaucratic needs in the state. Since the samurai became more educated, they were able to become important customers for merchants in dealing with silk. Cerca 1603-1610
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This is a turning point because most of the slaves Islam acquires are children. This is important because children can be taught at a very young age and be manipulated to do whatever they were told.
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This date represents when the Polish-Russia War ended with the Truce of Deulino.
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Preaches everyday for two weeks recited woeful tales of weeping believers. Other Shi'ites elsewhere observed rites of mourning of Imam, but the impact of these rites were great in Iran
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Li Zheng leads a peasant revolt against the Ming Dynasty convincing people to join by promising to equally divide land and eliminate grain taxes. This is one of the many tremors that toppled the Ming Dynasty.
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After the death of Shah Abbas a period of decline soon overtook the Safavid Empire. Shah Abbas II took the throne however he did nothing to prevent the decline.
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This is a turning point because this is the beginning of the Qing in China separating the country into two parts.
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The Manchus attacked again in 1637 and laid waste to northern and central Korea. Joseon's rulers had to submit to a tributary relationship with Qing China.
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China labeled Christianity as a heterodox sect after the Franciscan and Dominican missionaries challenged the Jesuit toleration of Chinese morality as equal to Christian morality and the Jesuit acceptance of Chinese ancestral worship as a civil, not a religious, rite. This resulted in a subsiding amount of Christian missionaries in China and ultimately less Christian activity.
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To prevent Li Zicheng from taking over the Ming Dynasty floods Kaifeng with water from the yellow river. This kills almost half of the 600,000 residents making it the worst act of war in history.
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Emperor Chongzhen commits suicide ending the Ming Dynasty. This is a turning point because the leadership of china changes and the Qing dynasty is created.
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Annual temperatures dropped and remained there until the 1700s. The resulting agricultural distress and famine fueled large uprisings which speed up the fall of the Ming Empire.
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This is a turning point because the Ottoman empire always suffered in technological advances to their european counterparts, and now that they have guns, they can compete and fight against the europeans.
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This is a turning point because Sub Saharan Africa had more exposure to Islamic cultural influences than european. This is because of Language. Arabic language spread across the continent of Africa. Islamic culture spread into African trade cities. This can then put Islam in front of Europe in the race to conquer the world.
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This is a turning point because throughout all the trade between islam and africa, islam gained lots of money, and resources, which was used to benefit their economics and horrible agriculture.
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Dutch ship, with Captain Hendrick Hamel, wrecked on Jeju Island.
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This is a turning point because Kangxi, the son of Shunzhi, becomes emperor who encourages painting, porcelain making, and literature.
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Under the rule of Qing Emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong consecutively, China gains the most territory it has had since the Han Empire putting it in a position of great power.
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Europe was sent 8 million african slaves. This is a turning point because instead of the slaves going to islamic states, they went to european. This caused the Islamic states to be behind the european.
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The Ottoman's fought against Russia in this war that was caused by the Ottoman expansion to the East.
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Peter the Great sent Princess Sophia to a monastery when she tried to take complete control. This allowed Peter to have complete control of the Empire and began his great rule.
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Peter the Great's life span. He drastically changed Russia and helped it grow and develop into the nation it is today.
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This is a turning point because the islamic state was so close to conquering the world. But, Europe has more guns, money, resources , and a better economic status, that Islam cannot keep up with them, which causes Islam states to not seize and conquer Eurasia.
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Peter the Great traveled across Europe to learn about the new technology and structure. This allowed him to copy and apply it to his own Empire in Russia.
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In the 1700's population growth put a strain on the land. In the remote provinces, the rate of economic growth was significantly bigger.
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In the 1700's, the shogunate's were unable to control the prices of rice and so the rice brokers were able to manipulate prices to enrich themselves. Cerca 1700's
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The Tokugawa gov. accepted the Confucian idea that agriculture should be the basis of state wealth and that merchants who were considered morally weak would hold low positions. Cerca 1700's
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The Merchants in Japan enjoyed their relative freedom and influence in eighteenth-century Japan. Cerca 1700's
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This established Russia as a major power for the first time. Their victory allowed trade to develop
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This incident exemplified the ideological and social crisis of Japan's social crisis from Japan's transition form a military to civil society.
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Peter made St Petersburg the capital of his empire. He had architects build baroque style houses and public buildings. St Petersburg is still here today.
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Peter seized the port of Azov in 1696 because he considered himself the protector of the Orthodox Christians, but lost it in 1713. This haulted the expansion to the south because they no longer had access to that port and the Ottomans were blocking them.
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This proclamation gave Peter or the Tsar complete control over everything and he did not have to answer to anyone. Because of this, Peter brought the Church under state control and made everything his.
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This is a turning point because Yongzheng becomes emperor and encourages learning, and even has a 10,000 chapter encyclopedia printed.
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Peter established a table of ranks provide stability in the higher social classes.
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The fall of the Safavid rule was due too the invading forces and the collapse of the city Isfahan.
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The Mughal leader Nizam al-Mulk gave up on the central government and established his own state. This caused a divide in the Mughal Empire
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This is a turning point because Qianlong increases wealth through foreign trade and increases rice production, bringing the empire to its highest point.
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Nadir Shah invaded the Mughal capital and carried off to iran the "peacock Throne" which was the priceless symbol of the Mughal grandeur.
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Joseph Francois Duplex took over the French stronghold and instituted a new European involvement in India.
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The Qing government was not up to controlling its vast empire as China had twice the population of all of Europe and geographically it was twice the size of the Ming Empire while employing the same amount of officials. The Qings rise had ended and decline had set in.
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The merchant families of Tokugawa Japan held the key to the future modernization and development of heavy industry. Cerca late 1700's
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They started discriminating and imprisoning them
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The Treaty of Jassy ended the Russo-Turkish War which put an end to an 80 year conflict.
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China begins to trade for silver rather than foreign goods. France and England become concerned about their supply of silver and start selling China mass amounts of opium and gets a large portion of China addicted to it. This would severely cripple economic growth in China as a large amount of people would just sit around and smoke opium all day.
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The census showed that more than half of the population was serfs or slaves and only 2% were landowners. This shows how much slave labor they used and how lopsided the social classes were.
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Several very important industries from the 20th century had their origin in sake breweries of the early Tokugawa period and then branched into manufacturing, fiances, and transport. Cerca 1700-2000