“Pleased with the Gujarati pilot”: Muslim Knowledge Facilitating European Navigation
The Gujarati Pilot who helped Vasco da Gama reach India
The Spread of Crops in Afroeurasia Before 1450
How rice reached Spain
Europeans Didn’t Discover the World
It’s time to stop calling it an “Age of Discovery” or an “Age of Exploration”
“The Bridge Has Fallen into Ruin”: The Rise and Decline of Cities Before 1450
Teaching world history often means teaching about historic trading cities (entrepôts). While some cities flourished as trade centers over centuries, others experienced brief periods of rise and decline. Constantinople/Istanbul is a unique example of a city that has flourished for centuries, but also has gone through multiple phases of
“No Day Passed Without Many Deaths”: Teaching Twentieth-Century Genocides and the War Against Humanity
Discussion of the Herero and Nama Genocide and the teaching of twentieth-century genocides.
Afroeurasian Exchange Networks and the Spread of Religions before 1450
Extensive trade networks crisscrossed Afroeurasia before 1500. These networks facilitated more than the movement of goods; cultural traditions and technologies also spread through the networks. We can easily see this through the spread of the four most popular universal religions. The Source
“Listen to the Women For a Change”: The First International Women’s Conference and Late Twentieth-Century Global Feminism
Discussion of teaching late-twentieth-century global feminism
The Problem with Hyphenating Afroeurasia
Hyphens suggest otherness; Afroeurasia has a long interconnected history
“When Mali Conquered the Region of Walata”: Trade and the Expansion of the Empire of Mali
Discussion of how the expansion of Mali facilitated trans-Saharan trade
“All Women Throughout the World”: Global Feminism and Internationalism, 1900-1950
Discussion of teaching global feminism in the first half of the 1900s
