HIS102Y1 Lecture 2: HIS102 2.1.
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Landmass of asia and europe no clear line. 1300 1922: peaked around 1600 and declined after, able to combine imperial strategies and repertoires of east west, land, sea, merchants, nomads, land owners, greek and roman cities, christians, jews, muslims, practices of. 1453 conquered constantinople (end of byzantine empire) United nations of crew as they conquered, they took knowledge and skills of different areas: forced immigration into city to repopulate & rebuild. Istanbul: converted hagia sophia into a mosque, many christian scholars fled west brought byzantine knowledge with them, controlled entire arab world (reunited) Mediterranean, gujarati, indian ocean: not spreading homogenous culture but put diversity to work, forced europeans to go around long way to find spices. Incorporation of buddhist and chinese motifs in ottoman art. After tatar yoke: most russians kept own identity and culture, saw mongols as foreign invaders. Ivan iii (the great) took title of tsar.
