Exploring Topics in Chapters 14-15

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Chapter 14 downloadhandout

Chapter 15 downloadhandout (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