PART THREE: AN AGE OF ACCELERATING CONNECTIONS 500–1500
photos: left, World History Archive/age fotostock; center, From the Psalter of Charles the Bold, 15th century/Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK/Bridgeman Images; right, From History of the Mongols, India (Lahore), Moghul, Court of Akbar the Great, ca. 1590/Library, Golestan Palace, Teheran, Iran/Werner Forman/Art Resource, NY
Contents
Chapter 7. Commerce and Culture, 500–1500
Chapter 8. China and the World: East Asian Connections, 500–1300
Chapter 9. The Worlds of Islam: Afro-Eurasian Connections, 600–1500
Chapter 10. The Worlds of Christendom: Contraction, Expansion, and Division, 500–1300
Chapter 11. Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage: The Mongol Moment, 1200–1500
Chapter 12. The Worlds of the Fifteenth Century