600 - 1450 Regional and interregional interactions
Contents
The development and expansion of Islam spurs greater cross-cultural interactions with Europe, Africa, and Asia. State-building in China. Migrations in Africa and the Pacific. Human movement spreads knowledge, goods, and disease.
32 exercises available
An overview of the history of the Byzantine Empire. Continuity and change after the fall of Rome.
An overview of the history of European serfdom in the Medieval period
An overview of the origins of Islam, including the life of Muhammad, the Hirja to Medina, and the conversion of Mecca.
As people traveled and traded across the world, Islam spread to those new places.
A high-level overview of two major types of Islam: Sunni and Shia.
An overview of the Golden Age of Islam and the discoveries and re-discoveries of knowledge in Baghdad during this time.
What were the Crusades? Why did people go on them? What were the long-term impacts?
In the thirteenth century, the Mongols expanded rapidly out of their homeland in the Asian steppes to become the largest contiguous land empire in history.
How did the Song Dynasty unify China culturally?
In the post-classical period, Japan was united by common language, culture, and economic structures, but government was decentralized.
An overview of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations.
Environments had profound impacts on the ways people could conduct trade.
Various factors affect whether people choose to leave their homes and make new lives. We will explore the history and impacts of migration.
As trade routes expanded, so did major trading cities such as Hangzhou, Malacca, and Timbuktu
We'll look at how the Srivijaya Empire, an empire on the Malay Peninsula lasting from the seventh to the twelfth century, was shaped by its interactions with its chief trading partners.
Financial institutions, specifically banks, developed as a result of cross-cultural interactions and the need to pay for trade and war.
How did the plague spread? We'll cover the history of the plague in Europe.