Transcript Five point framework - Mr. Clearwaters World history

Five point framework
• Environmental damage
• Climate change
• Hostile neighbors
• Friendly trade partners
• Response to environmental
problems
Han Dynasty collapses
• Began 100 CE
• Confucian intellectual activity
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declines
Central gov. losing power
• Emperor weak
• Politically ineffective
Corruption
• Decline of gov. morality
Assassinations
Rise of local lords to fill power
vacuum
Increase in taxes
Social unrest and revolution
Invasion from borderland nomads
Epidemic diseases
Led to 300 yrs of unrest
Gupta Empire collapses
• Inability to control local princes by 5th
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century CE
Nomadic invaders (maybe Huns)
• Continually press deeper into
empire
Nomads become part of caste system
No ruler/prince able to build large
empire
Rajput- ruling group of regional
princes
Roman Empire collapses
• Decay begins after 180 CE
• Weak emperors
• Succession disputes
• Army gets involved
• Brutality
• “lustful and cruel habits”
• Decentralization of political and
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economic authority
• Precursor to manorial system
• Landlords gain power
Epidemic diseases
• Brought due to trade
• Leads to economic problems
• Population declines
• Cities shrink
• Rome- 1 million to 250,000
Roman Empire collapses
• Difficulty recruiting troops
• Reliance on non-Romans
• Heavy burden to pay them
• Declining production leads to less
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Upper classes
• Unproductive lifestyles
• Superficial values
Cultural life decays
• No new knowledge or art styles
Copying the past
Overall feelings of depression and
futility from people
Germanic invaders take advantage
• Peasants at times welcomed them
• Set up kingdoms
Eastern empire survives fall of Rome
in 476 CE