Shanti Empire Through out the course of this school year‚ we have learned and examined multiple civilizations. For this project‚ we had to create our own ultimate civilization-gathering achievements from other civilizations and piecing them together to from the perfect Utopia. Like with Mesopotamia‚ Ancient Egypt‚ Ancient China‚ Ancient Greece and just about every early civilization-location played a vital role in the upbringing and culture of the peoples. My civilization resides in where
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Marco Polo When I was younger one of my favorite games to play in a swimming pool was “Marco Polo”. Little did I know that this famous childhood game was named after the famous explorer‚ Marco Polo himself. It is said that the reason the game was named after him was because one day Polo was traveling through China and grew very tired. He fell asleep on his horse and wondered away from the rest of his group. Later‚ he heard his group members calling his name‚ “Marco”. In return he called back to
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penetrate beyond the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. "The religion and commerce of Islam were flourishing throughout that continent" after the first Crusades. Due to this strong "Islamic curtain"‚ the Europeans were unaware of the existence of the Mongol empire gradually rising as one of the world superpowers until Marco Polo came back with fascinating stories after his service under the Great Khan.
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Silk Road was a merchants’ heaven and a consumers’ dream. A place wherecultural diffusion was a natural occurrence and different rich cultures could both spread and blend with freedom and prosperity. This global marketplace was took hundreds of years tostart and played a major factor our cultural past. Due to the combination of people‚ products‚ideas‚ and modes of transit‚ the first global marketplace was able to widely spread differentcultural ideas‚ beliefs‚ and lifestyles across Europe and Asia
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Silk Road DBQ The Silk Road in World History (Suggested writing time – 40 minutes) You should spend at least 10 minutes reading‚ analyzing‚ and grouping the sources. Directions: The following question is based on the accompanying Documents 1-6. (The documents have been edited for the purpose of this exercise.) Write your answer on the lined pages of the Section II free-response booklet. This question is designed to test your ability to work with and understand historical documents. Write an essay
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famous explorer left his home in Venice in 1271 to sail for a journey of a twenty four-year. A journey that took him where no European had been before. He went across the Middle East to Central Asia‚ Peking‚ and eventually to the palace of the strong Mongol King‚ Kublai Khan. Yet‚ when Marco returned home‚ he told the amazing stories to very few people. In the thirteenth century‚ European traders wanted to enlarge their business to new parts of the world. Among them were Marco‚ Marco’s father and
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opportunities. Thus‚ in 1260‚ they set out to the north of the Caspian Sea and reached Bukhara (which was on the caravan route to China) and remained there for 3 years. Thereafter‚ in 1263‚ joining the Persian envoys‚ they made their way to visit the Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan in Shangdu (near present Beijing). To arrive there‚ they traveled the Silk Route via Samar Qand‚ the Northern Tibetan desert and the Mongolian Steppes. Upon their arrival‚ Kublai Khan commissioned them to return with 100 missionaries
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Societies that were present by 15th century – hunters and gatherers‚ villages of agricultural peoples‚ newly emerging chiefdoms or small sates‚ nomadic/pastoral communities‚ established civilizations and empires. Paleolithic Persistence: Australia and North America Paleolithic=Old Stone Age peoples Australia‚ Siberia‚ the arctic coastlands‚ parts of Africa‚ and the Americas were all Paleolithic peoples Australia had 250 or so separated groups in it Despite the absence of agriculture‚ Australia’s
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1. Abbasids: Cosmopolitan Arabic dynasty {750-1258 CE} that replaced the Umayyads; founded by Abu al-Abbas and reached its peak under Harun al-Rashid. 2. Chinggis Khan: Born in 1170s in decades following death of Kabul Khan; elected khagan of all Mongol tribes in 1206; responsible for conquest of northern kingdoms of China; territories as faw west as the Abbasid regions; died in 1227‚ prior to conquest of most of Islamic world 3. Ghaznavids: ). Established by Alptigin‚ a Turkish soldier of Samadid
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Modernism in Chinese Culture Marco Polo the great explorer of the 13th and 14th century set out on a journey through the Mongol Empire during which he wrote The Book of Ser Marco Polo. During his journey he documented the marvels of his travels such as the city of Kinsay(Hangchow)‚ a large city inherited by the Yuan Dynasty after great conquests. Polo expressed the city as a “City of Heaven” because of its modernism and elegance while traveling through the city. The significance of The Book of Ser
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