Post-Class: Ch14, 15, 11 Study Guide
NAME: ____________________________
Transformation in the Late Postclassical World (Ch. 14, 15, 11)
...is about exploring the changes taking place toward the end of the postclassical period as the world
transitions into a new era as well as evaluating how the Aztecs and Incas in the Americas fit postclassical
patterns.
Overarching Ideas:
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Humans need to adapt to environments has necessitated technological innovation.
Cultures spread through syncretism.
Economic conditions and religion are key components in legitimizing or undermining government.
Ever intensifying trade is a powerful force for social and political change.
Social inequality is source of conflict yet ever-present in civilizations.
Objectives:
1. Analyze the historical significance of the Mongols.
2. Explain the degree to which the Mongols want to and are able to transform Chinese
society.
3. Describe the Ming dynasty.
4. Evaluate the consequences of plague pandemics in the fourteenth century.
5. Describe the religion of the Aztecs and Inca.
6. Describe the political administration of the Aztec and Inca empires and their attitudes
toward local autonomy.
7. Compare the economic systems of the Aztecs and Inca including their involvement in
trade networks, tribute systems, and “Inca socialism.”
8. Evaluate Aztec and Inca justifications for expansion, including Aztec use of human
sacrifice and Inca land inheritance.
9. Summarize the global transitions taking place in the 15th century.
10. Evaluate the accuracy of a rising West versus a decline of Eastern civilizations.
Key Concepts:
Explain the definition, role, and significance of…
Genghis Khan
Pax Mongolica
Khanate
Kublai Khan
Yuan
Ming
Moscow
Marco Polo
Ibn Battuta
Zheng He
Black Death
Henry the Navigator
Maya
Olmecs
Chinampas
Tenochtitlan
Corn
Split Inheritance
Potato
Mita
Quipu
Post-Class: Ch14, 15, 11 Study Guide
NAME: ____________________________
Guided Timeline:
Mid-East
S/SE Asia
China
East Asia
W. Eur
E.Eur
Africa
Peak of
Byzantium
&
Rise of
Russia
Ghana
Americas
600
Rise of Islam
& Umayyad
Tang
First
Muslim
Contacts
Chinese
influence in
Korea, Vietnam,
& Japan
Early Middle
Ages
Peak of
Abbasid
500s –
1300s
1000
Deeper
Muslim
Contact
Decline of
Abbasid
High Middle
Ages
Decline
the Mongol moment
Delhi
Sultanate
&
conversion
in SE Asia
1450
Song
Return to native
heritage in
Korea, Vietnam,
& Japan
Late Middle
Ages
Ming
Rise of the
Ottomans
Return to
Isolation
Mali
&
peak of
E. Africa
city-states
1300 – 1492
Post-Class: Ch14, 15, 11 Study Guide
NAME: ____________________________
Eurasia
Key Places:
Locate on the maps…
Golden Horde Empire
Moscow
Il-Khan Empire
Djagatai Empire
Baghdad
Constantinople
Himalaya Mountains
Genoa
Venice
Ottoman Empire
Spain
Portugal
Zheng He’s expeditions
Vasco da Gama’s expeditions
The Americas
Key Places:
Yucatan Peninsula
Maya
Sierra Madre Mtns
Aztec Empire
Lake Texcoco
Tenochtitlan
Andes Mtns
Atacama Desert
Inca Empire
Cuzco