Maritime Explorations: Christopher Columbus and Zheng He

Slides:

#22-Maritime Expansion

Lecture:

  • November 27th at 10:30 am
  • Optional Lecture Reading, World History, Chapter 12, pages 474-476.

The Columbian Exchange

Slides:

#23-The Columbian Exchange

Lecture:

  • November 29th at 10:30 am
  • No reading.

Assignments

Short Essay Version 2 due. For more information, see:

Short Essays

Tutorials this week

Tutorials this week will focus on the “Black Death”. It is your last week of tutorial!

Readings (all available in Worlds of History):

  • Gabriele de Mussis, “Origins of the Black Death” (Chapter 12, Reading 2)
  • “Causes According to the College of Physicians, Paris” (Chapter 12, Reading 4)
  • “Images of the Black Death” (Chapter 12, Reading 5)
  • Ahmad al-Maqrizi, “The Plague in Cairo” (Chapter 12, Reading 6)

Questions to think about:

  • What types of explanations did people in Europe and North Africa have for the Black Death? What aspects of their societies influenced those explanations? 
  • How do the images from Reading 5 add to our understanding of the Black Death and its impact in Europe? What can they tell us about the events surrounding it?