MMW 12 Chapter Notes - Chapter Article Notes: Ulama, Song Dynasty
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Mmw 12 article notes the eleventh century in eurasian history: a comparative. Approach to the convergence and divergence of medieval civilizations. The historiography of first millennium eurasia: changes in educational structures in china, islam, europe that led to changes in clerical elite and how they interacted with the common people in the government, centralization of authority, secular and religious. The end of the ancient world: between 3rd-7th centuries. The extension of citied civilization: 1200 cities were in many regions where this would not have been possible a few hundred years ago, acquired economic, social, cultural, governmental structures that enabled them to do so. The role of clerical elites: temples stimulated local exchanges, refined division of labor. The crises of the eleventh century: changes in intellectual legacies and in their relationships with the government and the people, changes in higher education from difficulties experienced by the families/friends of those it benefitted.