POLI 330: PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS
⫸ biological old regime. Answer: majority of the population were
peasants. largely relied on agriculture
⫸ four cultural areas. Answer: 1. Christendom
2. the house of Islam
3. the mosaic of India
4. the middle kingdom
⫸ Christendom. Answer: the dominance of the church, a large
Christian church, the church controlled all aspects of life, power of
the church was paramount.
The political structure of Europe was feudalism which was a
political system of hierarchy. grew out of a need of protection - fear
developed from the middle age
reciprocal obligations: shared land profits in exchange for
protection
⫸ The House of Islam. Answer: shared identity- dar al-Islam
2x the length of the US
mosques: meeting place and place of identity for the Islamic people
sunni/shiite division (succession issues)
, high regard for commerce and merchants (relatively low respect for
agriculture)
⫸ The Mosaic of India. Answer: the mixing of culture
absence of a strong and dominating empire
Islamic influence from the 11th century and onwards
typical hybrid culture (not exclusive, rather inclusive)
caste system: brahman ideology of purity and pollution
extended to gender relations
⫸ Marco Polo. Answer: traveled at 13 to china, followed his father
and grandfather, took 24 years & 15,000 miles, traveled over the
Silk Road carrying the Pope's Letter to Kublai Khan, wrote the
"Descriptions of the World" and "IV Million" (book of a million lies)
Importance of Marco Polo:
1. basic structure and players of long-distance travel
2. primary motivation to travel for the Europeans
⫸ Ibn Battuta. Answer: was a medieval Muslim traveler who wrote
one of the world's most famous travel logs, the Riḥlah. This work
describes the people, places, and cultures he encountered in his
journeys along some 75,000 miles (120,000 km) across and beyond
the Islamic world.
⫸ reasons for Chinese withdrawal. Answer: 1. too expensive
⫸ biological old regime. Answer: majority of the population were
peasants. largely relied on agriculture
⫸ four cultural areas. Answer: 1. Christendom
2. the house of Islam
3. the mosaic of India
4. the middle kingdom
⫸ Christendom. Answer: the dominance of the church, a large
Christian church, the church controlled all aspects of life, power of
the church was paramount.
The political structure of Europe was feudalism which was a
political system of hierarchy. grew out of a need of protection - fear
developed from the middle age
reciprocal obligations: shared land profits in exchange for
protection
⫸ The House of Islam. Answer: shared identity- dar al-Islam
2x the length of the US
mosques: meeting place and place of identity for the Islamic people
sunni/shiite division (succession issues)
, high regard for commerce and merchants (relatively low respect for
agriculture)
⫸ The Mosaic of India. Answer: the mixing of culture
absence of a strong and dominating empire
Islamic influence from the 11th century and onwards
typical hybrid culture (not exclusive, rather inclusive)
caste system: brahman ideology of purity and pollution
extended to gender relations
⫸ Marco Polo. Answer: traveled at 13 to china, followed his father
and grandfather, took 24 years & 15,000 miles, traveled over the
Silk Road carrying the Pope's Letter to Kublai Khan, wrote the
"Descriptions of the World" and "IV Million" (book of a million lies)
Importance of Marco Polo:
1. basic structure and players of long-distance travel
2. primary motivation to travel for the Europeans
⫸ Ibn Battuta. Answer: was a medieval Muslim traveler who wrote
one of the world's most famous travel logs, the Riḥlah. This work
describes the people, places, and cultures he encountered in his
journeys along some 75,000 miles (120,000 km) across and beyond
the Islamic world.
⫸ reasons for Chinese withdrawal. Answer: 1. too expensive
