Tag: the middle ages

Many monasteries were sites of innovation in agricultural techniques.

Monks and nuns were guided in the principles of poverty and chastity in order to remedy some immoral behavior.

Monasteries provided a spiritual discipline that promoted further unity in the Roman Catholic Church.

Monasteries political hierarchy became a model for the political order established in France, Germany, and England.

By preserving and copying ancient texts, monks and nuns preserved classical culture for later scholarly analysis.

Shogun $\rightarrow$ Emperor, Daimso $\rightarrow$ Lord, Samurai $\rightarrow$ Knights

Emperor $\rightarrow$ Monarch, Daimyo $\rightarrow$ Lords, Samurai $\rightarrow$ Knights

Shogun $\rightarrow$ Monarch, Daimyo $\rightarrow$ Lords, Samurai $\rightarrow$ Knights

Emperor $\rightarrow$ Monarch, Samurai $\rightarrow$ Lords, Daimyo $\rightarrow$ Vassals

Shogun $\rightarrow$ Monarch, Samurai $\rightarrow$ Lord, Daimyo $\rightarrow$ Vassals

Japan and Europe developed a close trade relationship which ended with the revival of the role of the emperor known as the Meiji Restoration

While trade flourished, missionary activity by Catholic Jesuits such as Francis Xavier was largely unsuccessful

After initial European success with trade and missionary activity in the mid-16th century. Japan's ruler's eventually developed a closed policy

The Tokugawa Shogunate welcomed continuing cultural and economic contact with Europe during its rule of Japan

The Japanese port of Nagasaki, which had been a major European trading hub, was closed to all but Chinese merchants during latter part of the period

Unified under a single, powerful emperor

Feudal states led by multiple warring shoguns

Centralized authority of a single shogun

Parliamentary monarchy

Feudal democracy

Astrolabe

Mast

Compass

Cartography

Caravel

King of England

Pope

Kohen

Queen of England

Scientific and technological

Social and cultural

Materialistic

Religious

A treaty signed by the Pope to show support for colonization in the Americas.

A treaty designed to establish Spain and England as the primary trade dominators in Western Europe.

A treaty signed to keep the peace in Europe due to growing trade and colonial rivalries.

A treaty that limited the trading rights of Portugal in the Indian Ocean.

A treaty that gave the colony of Brazil to Spain.

City-state

Nation-state

Multinational state

Totalitarian state

Germanic tribes embarked on a massive migration to Western Europe and established kingdoms that were the proto-states of modern Europe.

Eurasian groups such as the Huns constantly disrupted trade and commerce, keeping Western Europe isolated.

Raids by seagoing Vikings from Scandinavia periodically disrupted life from Ireland to the middle Mediterranean.

Nomadic societies were largely settled by this period and provided no more disruption to the Germanic Kingdoms.

Muslim kingdoms migrated northward, establishing strongholds in Northern Europe.