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UNIT I
MEDIEVAL WORLD
- Understanding Feudalism : European and Indian
- Church and nobility; Peasants and state
- Feudal relationships and socio-economic changes : growth of trade
and emergence of urban centres; feudal crisis
- Cultural Patterns : Crystallization of hierarchies; medieval life
and thought
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UNIT II.
Genesis Of A New Social
Order And Islamic Culture
- Pre-Islamic tribal society in Arabia; formation of ummah
- The Caliphates – Rashidun, Ummayads and early Abbasids (c. 632 CE
to c. 800 CE)
- Cultural Patterns : Adab, Akhlaq, Sufism
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UNIT III.
MEDIEVAL CHINA
- Dynastic change (Tang, Song, Mongols and Ming Period),
Confucianism and Changing State Ideology, Administrative Machinery.
- Agriculture and Trade, Technological Growth, Cultural
efflorescence (Ming period)
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