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Chapter 14

Chapter 15 handout (includes Intro to Part 3)

In this forum we discuss our last two chapters. Please refer to the handouts above.

Chapter 14 discusses crisis, renewal, and expanding economic and cultural frontiers in Afro-Eurasia in the era from about 1300-1450. Chapter 15 focuses on the Aztecs and Incas, as well as societies outside of any empires, such as the Eastern Woodland peoples of North America!

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!

To start a topic, 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 topic. Please make sure you add something new and insightful 🙂

Please start a topic and also respond to several other students. In this forum, students will be able to get up to six points for each post, regardless of whether you are starting a thread or responding to another student.