1. The High Middle Ages (1200-1400 AD) NOTE THE POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND OTHER EXAMPLES OF GLOBALIZATION AS YOU GO!

2. Mongols  In 1206 Genghis ____________ united the nomadic herdsmen of ____________ and began to sweep across the known world  In 20 years they had shattered the Muslim states of central Asia and had invaded Russia  Only stopped by the armies of ____________ and the weather in the ____________ of Japan

4.  Between Genghis Khan and his successors the Mongol Empire spanned from Korea to the Black Sea and was divided into ____________ Khanates  1296 – death of Genghis Khan’s grandson – ____________ peoples begin to re-assert independence

5. Richard “the Lion Hearted” and John “the Soft Sword”  King ____________I went to lead the Crusade leaving his brother in charge – dies in captivity on the way home  King ____________ (brother) proceeds to lose all of France except Calais  ____________ ____________– 1215AD – signed after brief civil war so nobles would always be consulted by the King (parliament) –Remains the basis of Common Law today and the origin of the British Constitutional Monarchy (democracy eventually)

6. China and Islam  ____________ Dynasty reunites all of China once again in the mid 14 th century and it begins to prosper once again  ____________ rebounded and expanded once again

7. Black Death  Mongols trans-Asian empire re-initiated east-west ____________  Marco Polo and Ibn Ba ṭ ū ṭ ah facilitated this trade  Ibn Battuta journeyed more than ____________ km, a figure unsurpassed by any individual explorer until the coming of the Steam Age some 450 years later.  Unfortunately this trade also promoted the spread of rat ____________ carrying the bubonic plague which spread rapidly  Europe lost ____________ of their population (~25 million) between 1347 and 1349  Combined with “the Little Ice Age” and dynastic conflicts in England, France, Germany, and Italy it lead to societal upheaval

10. Hundred Years War (1337-1453)  Between ____________ and ____________ (Scots ally with France)  Series of battles in three stages rather than a continuous warfare  English use of the ____________ and conscript peasant armies, rather than Knights, decimated the French nobility  English win great victories at Crecy, Poitiers, and Agincourt (overwhelming odds)  Watch part of Henry V  ____________inspires French recovery after 1429

12. Globalization Lessons: