Chapter 15: The West and the Changing Balance of World Power APWH Period 3: Regional and Transregional Interactions, c. 600 CE to c. 1450 Textbook Part III: The Postclassical Period, New Faith and New Commerce: 500-1450 C.E. . Chapter 15: The West and the Changing Balance of World Power
Decline of the Old Order
Zhenghe 1371-1433
The Rise of the West
Petrarch 1304-1374 “Father of Humanism”
Cosimo and Lorenzo de Medici
Perspective in da Vinci’s Study of Adoration of the Magi
Realistic Statues Michelangelo's David and Pieta
Western Expansion: The Experimental Phase
Overland Trade Routes from Asia
Cartographers at Work
World Map from Genoa, 1457
Astrolabe
Caravel
Vasco da Gama c. 1469-1524
Prince Henry “The Navigator” (1394-1460)
Outside the World Network
Polynesia
New Zealand
Maori Art