salt‚ indigo‚ and Persian rugs. As well as the trading of ideas that changed technology and religion. Trade between Africa and Eurasia remained constant during 300CE. Egypt would rise in power becoming an empire in Africa while Eurasia was a combination of states with the Mughal Empire. They traded back and forth using trading cities like Timbuktu with raw goods from Africa and Persian goods from Eurasia. Since trading is what allows people to come to an understanding with various other people
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Chapter 18 Nomadic Empires And Eurasian Integration People: 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
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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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Ibn Battuta Ibn Battuta was a Muslim Moroccan explorer‚ known for his extensive travels. Over a period of thirty years‚ he visited most of the known Islamic world as well as many non-Muslim lands; his journeys included trips to North Africa‚ the Horn of Africa‚ West Africa‚ Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West‚ and to the Middle East‚ South Asia‚ Central Asia‚ Southeast Asia and China in the East. He is considered one of the greatest travellers of all time. He journeyed more than 75
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until he reached Shantung Peninsula. In 1215 he captured Yenking with his armies‚ the last Chin stronghold‚ and in 1218 the Korean Peninsula fell to his powers. In 1219‚ for revenge of the murders of some Mongol traders he turned his armies west‚ invading Khoresm‚ a Turkish empire. Looting and demolishing‚ they swept through Turkistan and sacked the cities of Bukhoro and Samarqand. The invaders also took the cities of Peshawar and Lahore and the surrounding the country. In 1222 they
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other major world events. Empires such as Ming China‚ and the Ottomans‚ were two of the dominant global cultures prior to 1500‚ and Europe was nowhere near as advanced as these two were. As these two countries started to make an inward turn‚ it gave Europe a chance to prosper which changed the course of history forever. The “European Miracle” was an event that added Europe to dominant global powers‚ and completely changed their culture for the better. Prior to 1500‚ empires such as the Ming
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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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but the most important happen to be Africa‚ China‚ India‚ Europe‚ the Mongol empire‚ and the New World‚ he claims that‚ “This book is to bring the history of infectious disease into the realm of historical explanation by showing how varying patterns of disease circulation have affected human affairs in ancient times as well as modern times.” To support his claim he uses migration‚ immunity‚ the Columbian Exchange‚ the Mongols‚ the Black Death‚ religion‚ cleanliness‚ and the very beginning of mankind
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Zheng He sailed the oceans for the Chinese Empire during the early fifteenth century. (Zheng) He took seven voyages during his tenure‚ as admiral of the Chinese naval power. Suddenly‚ in the year of 1433‚ all expeditions came to a halt and the ships were burnt until they no longer existed along with most documentation of these voyages. Although some historians‚ like Needham‚ argue that the new outbreak of Confucianism among the common people changed the thought process of the Chinese and their opinion
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Were the Dark Ages really that dark? The 13th century is firmly in the category of centuries considered to be in the Dark Ages during the time period of 500-1500 AD. There are many events‚ discoveries and developments during this time period that would dispute the term “Dark Ages”. One of the most lasting documents that still impacts certain societies today was written in the year 1215. This document is known as the Magna Carta. The term Magna Carta is Latin for the “Great Charter”. Signed by King
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