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

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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.

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Marco Polo (1254 1324)
Where did he travel?
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Ibn Battuta (travels 1325 1354)
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Rabban Sauma (1225 1300)

• Chinese
• Nestorian Christian monk

Beijing - Jerusalem - Paris
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Zheng He (voyages 1405 -1433)
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Take note

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

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

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Malagasy People
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Polynesia (3000BCE 1200CE)
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Erik the Red Thorvaldson (/- 950 1004)and
Leif Ericsson
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Black Death
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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?
Provide examples!
Discuss in groups
Write an essay response
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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 didnt the Chinese dominate the world?

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Collateral?Haka if enough time life over?
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Fin
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• 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.

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Corn ?
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