Aim: to what extent did intercontinental travel take place during the European

Middle Ages?

Take a look at the following information. Then answer the Aim.

Marco Polo (1254 – 1324)

Where did he travel?

Ibn Battuta (travels 1325 – 1354)

Rabban Sauma (1225 – 1300)• Chinese• Nestorian Christian

monk

Beijing -Jerusalem -

Paris

Zheng He (voyages 1405 -1433)

Take note:

• Zheng He did all of this during the Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644) after the fall of the Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty (1279 – 1368).

Chinese Ming pottery has been discovered amongst the ruins of Great Zimbabwe!

Leo Africanus (1485 - 1554)

• El Hasan ben Muhammed el-Wazzan-ez-Zayyati was born in the Moorish city of Granada, Spain, in 1485

• “Fabrics are also imported from Europe to Timbuktu, borne by Berber merchants.” - Leo Africanus

• This is an excerpt from Reading About the World, Volume 2, edited by Paul Brians, Mary Gallwey, Douglas Hughes, Azfar Hussain, Richard Law, Michael Myers, Michael Neville, Roger Schlesinger, Alice Spitzer, and Susan Swan and published by Harcourt Brace Custom Books.

Malagasy People

Polynesia (3000BCE – 1200CE)

Erik “the Red” Thorvaldson (+/- 950 – 1004)

and Leif Ericsson

http://faculty.cua.edu/pennington/ChurchHistory220/Lecture%20Three/TopicFour.html

Black Death

Aim: to what extent did intercontinental travel take place

during the European Middle Ages?

How and why did intercontinental travel have an impact on the world?

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• 1. Although not as common as during the modern era it happened.

• 2. Cultural diffusion

• 3. Increased “international trade” and desire for foreign products. Obvious economic incentive for “exploration.”

• 4. Later “discoveries” during the Age of European Exploration are not quite as momentous E.g.: Columbus.

• 5. Why didn’t the Chinese dominate the world?

Collateral?

Haka… if enough time life over?

Fin

• There is also evidence that appears to indicate that the Chinese, including Zheng He, visited the west coast of North and South America and in particular spent a lot of time in California and Baja.

Corn ?