LECTURE TOPICS

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Topic I: The Worlds of 1300

A. Pangaea Revisited and the Creation of
Two Worlds [here] or [PDF]

B. "Human History, Last 13,000 Years" [here]

C. The Worlds of 1300 [here] or [PDF]

1. Islam: Empire of Faith [link]

2. Puja: Hindu Devotion [link]

3. Confucianism Handout [link]

4. Mongols [link] [link]

Topic II: Crisis and Recovery in Eurasia

A. Crisis in Eurasia [here] [PDF]

1. The Black Death [link]

B. Recovery in Euraisa [here] [PDF]

1. Ottoman Empire Handout [PDF]

2. Ming China [link] [link] [link]

3. Europe

Topic III: Commerce, Contact, and Colonialism

A. Revival of Ming Trade [link] [link]

B. Overland trade [see book]

C. Portugese Explorers [link] [link]

D.Christopher Columbus
* "What Columbus Knew"
* Columbus Through First Contact
* Columbus: Hero or Villan
* Columbus Maps
* Columbus Navigation Homepage
* Columbus Journal, 1492
* Columbus Letter to Spanish Monarchs

E. Spanish Colonial System [PDF]
* Images from Colonial Latin America
* Colonization and Print in the Americas
* Timeline of Colonial Latin America
* Encounters in America
* The Bull Inter Caetera, 1493
* The Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494
* The Laws of Burgos, 1512-13
* The New Laws of the Indies, 1542

F. The Reformation
* M.H. Sourcebook: Luther and Calvin
* M.H.S.: Catholic Reformation

Topic IV: Worlds Entangled, 1600-1750

A. Mercantilism

B. The English Empire

C. The French Empire
* The French Empire
* Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715) [Rule] [Versailles]

D. Slave Systems of the Americas [link]

E. Absolutism and Constitutionalism [pdf]

Topic Five: The Age of Democratic Revolutions, 1700-1850

A. The Worlds of 1700

B. Enlightenment [Science] [Enlighten]

C. American Revolution [pdf]