OVERVIEW
This chapter is about the networks that connected Asia and Europe between 1000 and 1500. Societies during this period exchanged ideas, goods, crops, and even diseases. Long-distance trade and travel, recovery from crises such as disease, and exploration/colonization are all present in this chapter.
OBJECTIVES
1. Analyze major components of post 1000 A.D. long distance trade considering diplomacy and missionary impulse.
2. Compare the missions of Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta.
3. Summarize the impact of the bubonic plague.
4. Describe the centralization process of Hongwu and Yongle.
5. Analyze how taxation and standing armies created European greatness.
6. Describe the humanist concept of the Renaissance.
7. Describe the voyages of Zheng He.
8. Evaluate the impact of Christopher Columbus.
This chapter is about the networks that connected Asia and Europe between 1000 and 1500. Societies during this period exchanged ideas, goods, crops, and even diseases. Long-distance trade and travel, recovery from crises such as disease, and exploration/colonization are all present in this chapter.
OBJECTIVES
1. Analyze major components of post 1000 A.D. long distance trade considering diplomacy and missionary impulse.
2. Compare the missions of Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta.
3. Summarize the impact of the bubonic plague.
4. Describe the centralization process of Hongwu and Yongle.
5. Analyze how taxation and standing armies created European greatness.
6. Describe the humanist concept of the Renaissance.
7. Describe the voyages of Zheng He.
8. Evaluate the impact of Christopher Columbus.