Women In World History by https://padlet.com/reberhardt4/Ladies12001450 List +/- roles or changes for ladies. Title it en-us 2021-04-05 00:46:16 UTC 2025-11-17 10:32:34 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f477-2640.png 1.4 Howard https://padlet.com/reberhardt4/Ladies12001450/wish/1386825937 Many Opportunities
Mississippian Culture
  • a matrilineal society, so women had lot of opportunities
  • women farmed
Maya
  • Maya women could rule if no male heir was available or old enough
  • women could work as priests to conduct ceremonies
Aztec
  • women played an important rule
  • women wove cloth to pay the taxes
  • some men had more than one wife

]]> 2021-04-06 12:34:23 UTC https://padlet.com/reberhardt4/Ladies12001450/wish/1386825937 C-1.3. Esmee https://padlet.com/reberhardt4/Ladies12001450/wish/1386827915 Many Muslim kingdoms rejected women in their societies. Many women were put down due to their religion and role in their society. Muslim and Hindu allowance for women was very little they mainly followed the men and changed to the mans religion when married. South Asia, were many people were Hindu and Islamic it was popular to see separate social sphere for women. As more and more, women converted to Muslim they surprisingly lost their freedom. Even though confined into a room or a spirit society, they had freedom. But when converted to Muslim because of the arrival of Islam, they became more strict because they would follow the husbands around. ]]> 2021-04-06 12:34:52 UTC https://padlet.com/reberhardt4/Ladies12001450/wish/1386827915 2.5-abby https://padlet.com/reberhardt4/Ladies12001450/wish/1386829542 Margery Kempe-An english mystic. 
She wrote one of the earliest autobiographies, if not the first. It was about her pilgrimages to Jerusalem and the life of a middle-class medieval woman. She also could not read or write and dedicated her book to the scribes that wrote down her descriptions.

The fact she could not read or write shows the lack of educational opportunities for women during that time. ]]> 2021-04-06 12:35:16 UTC https://padlet.com/reberhardt4/Ladies12001450/wish/1386829542 1.6 -- Stephanie https://padlet.com/reberhardt4/Ladies12001450/wish/1386831216 Many Opportunities
* Became more urbanized, where woman gradually occupied more roles
* Managed manor accounts
* Administration in religious orders
* Craftspeople, merchants
* ISLAMIC SOCIETIES: status of women was better off comparatively ]]> 2021-04-06 12:35:40 UTC https://padlet.com/reberhardt4/Ladies12001450/wish/1386831216 1.2 Jacob https://padlet.com/reberhardt4/Ladies12001450/wish/1386834199 Women in Islam:
Muhammed treated women better than the people in the past living in that area. 
Compared to Jewish and Christian women, Muslim women had more freedoms. They could-sometimes initiate divorce, learn to read, get money in a divorce and inherit and retain property]]> 2021-04-06 12:36:26 UTC https://padlet.com/reberhardt4/Ladies12001450/wish/1386834199 1.1 Stef https://padlet.com/reberhardt4/Ladies12001450/wish/1386850572 Throughout Asia, Confucian principles expected women to defer to men as part of the quintessential family unit. During the Tang and the Song dynasties, this belief was further cemented. Foot binding was a common practice, and in fact continued to be practiced into the 20th century — this precluded women from full mobility by thwarting the development of their feet. The ubiquitous merit-based bureaucracies diffused throughout the continent did not generally consider women.]]> 2021-04-06 12:40:20 UTC https://padlet.com/reberhardt4/Ladies12001450/wish/1386850572 1.5 - Caiden https://padlet.com/reberhardt4/Ladies12001450/wish/1386865833 In sub saharan Africa, women often occupied what we think of as traditional roles today. Women were responsible for the collection of fruits along with general agricultural practices. Women were also responsible for carrying out domestic chores and taking care of the family while men did much of the physical labor and more demanding work. ]]> 2021-04-06 12:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/reberhardt4/Ladies12001450/wish/1386865833