ANTH222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Lewis Mumford, Zheng He, Foundry
25 Oct 2018
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With the heavy roofs, they will resist high winds, especially with all the joints put together: joints bend with the wind. Apical choice: west gears, mechanical, intricate, east belts, simple, one moving part. Technology developed rapidly in europe because there were a lot of little states constantly competing with one another. They no longer needed to compete: china became xenophobic against anything that"s foreign as a response to foreign invaders. They retreated back into themselves and didn"t have contact with outside sources: the exception was admiral zheng he, chinese built ships and put admiral zheng he, a muslim eunuch, in charge of the fleet. China could have become a world power in the 15th century, but the emperor retreated again as a result of china"s interaction with foreigners. Literati: people who could read and write, only members of the gentry, those who owned land.
