Topics for Questions 11-15
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Medieval Times: Feudalism / Manorialism
China’s Dynastic Cycle
Japanese Isolation: Tokugawa Shogunite
Magna Carta / Glorious Revolution
Medieval Times: Feudalism / Manorialism
• Feudalism – Class system based on land ownership
(COMPARE: British Feudalism with Japanese
Feudalism)
• Manorialism – Economic System based on a lord
owning the land and everyone else working it for the
good of the manor (like a southern plantation)
• Black Plague = Death of many Europeans due to
unsanitary conditions and lack of medical knowledge
(population decreased)
Feudalism – Class system based on land
ownership (COMPARE: British Feudalism
with Japanese Feudalism)
British Feudalism
Japanese Feudalism
Nobles
Manorialism = Economy based on selfsufficient Manors & Plantations
Black Plague / Bubonic Plague
Oriental Rat Flea
REGENTS REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. What social system was based on land ownership?
2. Why did people during the Feudal Era place so much value on Land Ownership?
(hint: think about what made someone wealthy)
3. Draw a European style social pyramid from the Feudal era
4. What was the economic system that developed due to the land being owned by
Kings and Lords?
5. List FIVE things that you would find on a Manor that made the manor selfsufficient with regards to food and shelter.
6. From where did the Black Plague come from? How was the Black Plague spread ?
China’s Dynastic Cycle
• Dynasties: Ming/Tang/Song
• Overland Trade routes
• Brought Chinese culture to Japan = Cultural
Diffusion
• Art + Science + Invention
• Middle Kingdom = Ethnocentrism
• COMPARE: Divine Right of Kings (Britain) to
Mandate of Heaven (China)
Dynasties: Ming/Tang/Song
Mandate of Heaven = God Gives Family Power to Rule
(similar to Divine Right of Kings)
Marco Polo / Silk Road = Overland
trade routes
REGENTS REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. Where did Chinese royal families believe they got their power from?
2. What types of problems led to Chinese Royal Families losing their mandate of
heaven?
3. Describe what geographic areas the Silk Road extended across.
4. List 4 items traded for along the silk road
Japanese Isolation- Tokugawa Shogunite
• The Tokugawa Shogunite = Feudalism
• Isolate Japan = Shogun can keep power
• Land owners remain most powerful social group
• Japan falls VERY far behind as rest of world
develops
• Japanese Samurai similar to European Knight
• Samurai followed Code of Bushido/Knights followed
Code of Chivalry
• Stressed Honor, Loyalty and Proper Respect for Lords
Japan = Isolated
Why?
Samurai Warrior
Japanese Feudal Bushido
vs
European Chivalry
REGENTS REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. Why was Japan isolated under the Tokugawa Shogun?
2. Explain the similarities between the Japanese Feudal system and the European
Feudal system.
3. Describe the similarities between the Samurai’s Code of Bushido and the English
Knight’s Chivalry
Magna Carta / Glorious Revolution
• Limited the power of the Monarch (king)
• Parliament becomes more important = people
have greater say because of elected officials
• Henry VIII and King James II
• Protestant Church becomes “Church of
England”
Magna Carta (1215) = King had to
follow the law; limited his power
Glorious Revolution:
1. Limited the power of the Monarch
(king)
2. Power to Parliament
Modern Effect of Magana Carta/Glor. Rev.
Who has the power of British laws and policy making?
QUEEN
Prime Minister Brown
REGENTS REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. What was the purpose of the Magna Carta?
2. How were the Glorious Revolution and the Magna Carta similar in purpose?
3. Who holds the modern day political power in England? What is the modern role
of the Queen and King of England?