Ch+22+Change_Continuity

=__Change & Continuity__=
 * By TheodoreElizanderMosesCervantessetnavreCsesoMrednazilEerodoehT & SaeedAhmeddemhAdeeaS**
 * Changes** demography
 * The Bubonic Plauge brought on a decline in the population
 * 1300c.e -China's population stood at 85 millions
 * 1400c.e -77 years of the Bubonic Plauge had reduced to 75 million
 * A century later it shot back up to 100 million
 * Little Ice Age
 * In 1300 - global climates declined throughout the world, cause a "Little Ice Age"
 * Shorter growing seasons, agriculture decline, led to famine*
 * Great Khan gets kicked out of China
 * Hong Wu becomes emperor of Ming Dynasty
 * Cultural traditions back

Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta inspirations
 * Marco Polo book inspired people to go to China
 * Ibn Battuta provided guidance in the ways of Islam
 * Europe
 * France and England Hundred year war (1337-1453)
 * Spain united by Catholic Kings marrige (Fernando of Aragon Isabel of Castile)
 * Renaissance Innovation
 * New ideas, improvements on art and architecture
 * Artist sought realism in art.
 * Studied the human body
 * Sugarcanes & Gunpowder
 * Muslims became large cultivators of sugarcanes
 * Facilitated the westward spread of sugarcane
 * Mongol invaders learned about gunpowder from Chinese military used in their artillery


 * Continuity**
 * Ming Dynasty government system was similar to the older dynasties


 * Approved by Karina Maloney**