Commerce and Learning in Chapters 11-12

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I love the way these two chapters both focus on exciting changes in Afro-Eurasia from about 900-1300.

Chapter 11 downloaddiscusses economic developments, and Chapter 12 downloadfocuses on learning and the spread of culture!

In this forum, the plan is for everyone to start one topic on their own and also reply to several other students. The forum is worth 30 points, so please make sure you really get into it!

For your thread (a topic you start), please find something on the reading handouts for these chapters that nobody else has brought up yet. You do not need to write a lot…just tell us why you think this person, place, event, institution, or concept is important to the era and why you thought it would be especially good for us to discuss this item. Please provide relevant page numbers (or a section or subsection heading).

To make it fun and interesting, please do one of these things:

1) add a link for a picture, a video, or a website you would like for people to discuss;

2) mention a primary source document, picture, or artifact in our textbook that helps us; or

3) mention a map or a chart in our reading that will help us grasp the topic.

When you respond to threads from other students, please bring in more material from your reading that adds to the discussion, as well as insights related to what the person has shared. If you focus on doing this really well, the responses could be as challenging as starting a thread. Please make sure you add something really new and insightful 🙂