Short Post
Weekly posts (published on Monday or Tuesday) highlighting a primary source (either textual or visual) that aligns with the AP Modern World History Curriculum.
“The Plague Increased and Spread Further”: The Spread of the Black Death
A discussion of the spread of the Black Death to the Middle East
“Cairo Had Become an Abandoned Desert”: The Black Death in Egypt
A discussion of the Black Death in the Middle East
“Sales, Auctions, and Exchanges Go on Constantly”: The Song Chinese Economy
A discussion of the Song Chinese economy.
The Last Supper in Cuzco: Indigenizing Christianity in the Andes
A discussion of syncretism in Spanish colonial Cuzco in the eighteenth century.
“Know How to Treat Indians”: Indigenous American Resistance to the British Attempts at Christianization
A discussion of Indigenous American resistance in eighteenth-century New York.
“Indian Parents Defend their Daughter”: Indigenous Resistance in Early Seventeenth Century Peru
A discussion of Indigenous resistance in Spanish Peru.
“The Number of Chinese Appears to be Very Considerable”: The Chinese Diaspora in Southeast in the Early Nineteenth Century
A discussion of how to teach Chinese migration to Southeast Asia in the early nineteenth century
“Entered Malabar and Built Mosques”: The Spread of Islam in Southern India
A discussion of how to teach about the spread of Islam in the Indian Ocean
“Returning from the Western Ocean”: Giraffes in Ming China
A discussion of how to teach about the voyages of Zheng He using giraffes
“To Fend for Existence in the Poorest Conditions”: Women and Decolonization in 1963
A discussion of how we can use a speech from 1963 to discuss decolonization, gender roles, feminism, and the Cold War.
