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.
“Method of Building the Ships”: Chinese Ships Before 1400
Discussion of teaching Indian Ocean shipping technology
“As Soon as the Merchants Arrive”: Melaka and Indian Ocean Trade Before 1450
Discussion of teaching Melaka
Visualizing Mongol Exchange
Discussion of Mongol exchange
“Let Merchants and Caravans Come and Go”: Mongol Promotion of Trade
Discussion of teaching the Mongol promotion of trade
“Gujarati Clothes are Held in Great Value”: The Demand for Indian Textiles in Southeast Asia, c.1400
Discussion of teaching Indian textile trade in Southeast Asia
“All that is Needed to Refresh the Traveler”: Building Caravanserais in Anatolia
Discussion of teaching caravanserais
More than Silk on the Silk Roads: Sogdians and Cultural Exchange Across Eurasia
Discussion of teaching the Silk Roads
“The Totally Planless Construction”: Teaching Nineteenth-Century Urbanization
Discussion of teaching nineteenth-century urbanization
Industrialization, Women, and Social Class
Discussion of teaching the intersection of class and gender
“Manufacture Created the Middle Class”: Industrialization and the Class System
Discussion of teaching the development of the social class system
