reaching out: cross cultural interactions
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Reaching Out: Cross Cultural Interactions. AP World History Chapter 22. Trade and Travel. Venetian Marco Polo (1253-1324) served under Kublia Khan for 17 years. Recorded travels impact European views of Asia. Mongols, Christians recognize Muslims as common enemy. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Reaching Out: Cross Cultural Interactions
AP World HistoryChapter 22
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Trade and Travel• Venetian Marco Polo (1253-1324)
served under Kublia Khan for 17 years.
• Recorded travels impact European views of Asia.
• Mongols, Christians recognize Muslims as common enemy.
• Traveling diplomats include Rabban Sauma (Nestorian) and Ibn Battuta (1304-1369)
• Muslim and Christian missionaries moved throughout region.
Marco Polo in
Mongolian attire.
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Cultural Exchanges
• Muslims, Jews and Europeans exchange cultures.
• Muslims introduce Europeans to sugar.
• Gunpowder technology reaches Europe by 1258.
The Sultiana, a bronze muzzle-loading cannon, was used by the Ottomans in the siege of Constantinpole. The cannon used
gunpowder to launch a 25-inch stone cannonball.
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Bring Out Your Dead!• The Bubonic Plague comes from SW China.• Mongols, merchants, travelers spread
disease west (1346-1348).• 60-70% mortality rate within days of onset
of symptoms.• Has significant social and economic
impact.• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qK4X6bqy3o&feature=related
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The Culprits
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The Symptoms
Bulbous
Septicemic Form:
almost 100% mortality rate.
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Lancing a Buboe
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The Disease Cycle
Flea drinks rat blood that carries the
bacteria.
Flea’s gut cloggedwith bacteria.
Bacteriamultiply inflea’s gut.
Flea bites human and regurgitates blood into human wound.
Human is infected!
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The Fall of the Mongols• The Mongols
depart China, and the Ming Dynasty takes over.
• Dynasty brings back Confucian teaching, centralization.
• Society sees economic, cultural recovery.
An African giraffe that was put on display in a Ming Zoo.
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Recovery Spreads West
• European recovery begins with taxes, formation of standing armies.
• Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain fund age of discovery.
• Completes reconquista of peninsula.
Spanish King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella and their subjects.
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The “Rebirth” of Europe
• The Renaissance brings about a rebirth of classical culture (art, architecture, etc.).
• Humanists maintain strong connection to Christianity.
• Group promotes staying pure while living in the real world.
Michelangelo’s famous David statue (slightly modified).
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Images of the Renaissance
The School of Athens by Rafael
Left: Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Below: St. Peter’s Basilica.
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Exploring the World
• The Ming Dynasty promotes naval exploration.
• Europeans explore in Indian, Atlantic oceans for God and gold.
• Bartholomew Diaz, Vasco Da Gama and Christopher Columbus usher in Age of Discovery.
Vasco Da Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope (1497-1499)