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

2. Marco Polo (1254 – 1324)
Where did he travel?

3. Ibn Battuta (travels 1325 – 1354)

4. Rabban Sauma (1225 – 1300) Chinese Beijing - Nestorian Christian monk
Jerusalem -
Paris

5. Zheng He (voyages )

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

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

10. Leo Africanus ( )
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
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11. Malagasy People

12. Polynesia (3000BCE – 1200CE)

13. Erik “the Red” Thorvaldson (+/- 950 – 1004) and Leif Ericsson

18. Black Death

19. Write an essay response
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

20. 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?

21. Collateral? Haka… if enough time life over?

22. Fin

26. 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.

27. Corn ?