Transcript Reaching Out: Cross Cultural Interactions

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.
• Traveling diplomats include Rabban
Sauma (Nestorian) and Ibn Battuta (13041369)
• Muslim and Christian missionaries moved
throughout region.
Marco
Polo in
Mongolian
attire.
Cultural Exchanges
• Muslims, Jews and
Europeans exchange
cultures.
• Muslims introduce
Europeans to sugar.
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.
• Gunpowder
technology reaches
Europe by 1258.
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.
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The Culprits
The Symptoms
Bulbous
Septicemic Form:
almost 100% mortality rate.
Lancing a Buboe
The Disease Cycle
Flea drinks rat blood
that carries the
bacteria.
Bacteria
multiply in
flea’s gut.
Human is infected!
Flea bites human and
regurgitates blood
into human wound.
Flea’s gut clogged
with bacteria.
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.
Recovery Spreads West
• European recovery
begins with taxes,
formation of standing
armies.
• Ferdinand and Isabella
of Spain fund age of
discovery.
Spanish King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
and their subjects.
• Completes reconquista
of peninsula.
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).
Images of the Renaissance
The School of Athens by Rafael
Left:
Leonardo Da
Vinci’s Mona
Lisa. Below:
St. Peter’s
Basilica.
Exploring the World
Vasco Da Gama
sailed around the
Cape of Good Hope
(1497-1499)
• 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.