What is Southernization?
Southernization is a multifaceted process that began in Southern Asia and spread from there to other areas. This included general development in metallurgical, medical, and literary and interrelated strands of development that fell under those. Some for example are the development of mathematics, the production and marketing of subtropical or tropical spices; the pioneering of new trade crops; and the development of related technologies. Those developments lead to changes in southern asia and soon other areas too. Southernization was already taking place in India during the fifth century and spreading to China. By the eighth century, element of it began to spread to the lands of the Muslim Caliphates and Christian …show more content…
The Arabs were responsible for the spread of many important crops such as sugar cotton and citrus fruits; developed and improved in India, to the Middle East, North Africa, and Islamic Spain. Their establishment made southern crops such as sugarcane and cotton cultivation a major impact throughout the Middle East and North Africa by moving sugarcane cultivation and sugar manufacturing westward from southern Iraq into other relatively arid lands. Arab mathematicians made remarkable advances in algebra and trigonometry. Their conquests also led to an increase in long distance commerce and the discovery of new sources of bullion.
What contributions did the Mongols make?
Being too far north, the Mongols did not benefit from profits of the agricultural enterprise that took place in the southern parts of Asia and the Muslim Mediterranean through the growing of southern crops. The Mongols also shifted overland trade routes in North Asia and converged on the Black Sea.
What contributions did the Byzantines make?
In 1261, the Genoese helped the Byzantines to retake Constantinople from the venetians and in return the Genoese were granted special trade privileges in the black
Southernization is a multifaceted process that began in Southern Asia and spread from there to other areas. This included general development in metallurgical, medical, and literary and interrelated strands of development that fell under those. Some for example are the development of mathematics, the production and marketing of subtropical or tropical spices; the pioneering of new trade crops; and the development of related technologies. Those developments lead to changes in southern asia and soon other areas too. Southernization was already taking place in India during the fifth century and spreading to China. By the eighth century, element of it began to spread to the lands of the Muslim Caliphates and Christian …show more content…
The Arabs were responsible for the spread of many important crops such as sugar cotton and citrus fruits; developed and improved in India, to the Middle East, North Africa, and Islamic Spain. Their establishment made southern crops such as sugarcane and cotton cultivation a major impact throughout the Middle East and North Africa by moving sugarcane cultivation and sugar manufacturing westward from southern Iraq into other relatively arid lands. Arab mathematicians made remarkable advances in algebra and trigonometry. Their conquests also led to an increase in long distance commerce and the discovery of new sources of bullion.
What contributions did the Mongols make?
Being too far north, the Mongols did not benefit from profits of the agricultural enterprise that took place in the southern parts of Asia and the Muslim Mediterranean through the growing of southern crops. The Mongols also shifted overland trade routes in North Asia and converged on the Black Sea.
What contributions did the Byzantines make?
In 1261, the Genoese helped the Byzantines to retake Constantinople from the venetians and in return the Genoese were granted special trade privileges in the black