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“These People Have the Cream of the Trade”: Gujaratis’ Continued Influence after the Arrival of Europeans
The Portuguese acknowledged the continued dominance of Gujarati traders
“A Very Pleasant Game”: Teaching the South Asian Cultural Mosaic with Snakes & Ladders
Teaching the diversity of South Asia through Snakes and Ladders
“We Decreed by Law”: Regulating the Slave Trade in Sixteenth-Century Kongo
Teaching how the rulers of Kongo regulated the slave trade
“Set this Chessboard and its Pieces Before Your Most Learned Men”: Teaching Chess and the Games of World History
Teaching Afroeurasian exchange using chess
“Walk by the Ancient Customs of the Port”: Limits on English Trade in India in the 1600s
In the 1600s, the English EIC adapted more than conquered
“An Acre of Potatoes”: Crops from the Americas in Afroeurasia
The Colombian Exchange and why the Irish adopted potatoes
“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
