States/Empires

 

Aztec: had a monarchy, advancements included copper or stone made weapons (spears in particular), enslaved labor system by the Spanish that invaded them

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East Asia/Song: monarchy as well, Printing, paper money, porcelain, tea, restaurants, gunpowder, the compass, 

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Eurasia: ruled completely by the khans/mongols, mathematics, medicine, printing technology, and gunpowder warfare, they had peasants and a peasant system.

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Delhi Sunates/south Asia: empire/one in control, 

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Medieval Europe: feudalism, vertical windmills, spectacles, mechanical clocks, and greatly improved water mills, building techniques (Gothic architecture, medieval castles), and agriculture in general (three-field crop rotation),

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Labor Systems:

• Peasants: they were able to work on their land on their own means and had some control over the labor

• Artisans: these were the people in charge of making the products that people purchased and were the craftsmen

• Slavery: these were all of the people that were forced to do manual labor and had no choice in the matter and were at the mercy of whoever was in ownership of them

• Indentured servitude: very similar to normal slaves in the sense that in certain circumstances they could be bought and sold and traded.

Encomienda, Hacienda, Mit’a systems: all forms of slavery that were a system of class and social hierarchy.

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                                                                                                                                                            From top left: Japan, Europe, China, Mughal, South America