World Civilizations
Alharbi333 
CORE133BecomingtheWorld.pptxBecoming the World
1000-1300 ce
al-Idrisi’s world map (1154) Bodleian Library, Oxford
Focus Questions
What factors led to the explosion of global trading between 1000 and 1300?
How did trade and migration affect sub-Saharan Africa between 1000 and 1300?
How did trade, conversion, and migration affect the Islamic world between 1000 and 1300?
In what ways did India remain a “cultural mosaic”?
What transformations in communication, education, and commerce promoted a distinct Chinese identity during this era?
How did Mongol conquests affect cross-cultural contacts and regional development in Afro-Eurasia?
Commercial Connections
Revolutions at Sea
Commercial Contacts
Global Commercial Hubs
The Egyptian Anchorage
The Anchorage of Quanzhou
Melaka as Crossroads of Afro-Eurasia
The Tip of India as Nerve Center of Maritime Trade
Modern dhow in harbor of Zanzibar displays characteristic triangle sail
Afro-Eurasian Trade, 1000-1300
Sub-Saharan Africa Comes Together
West-Africa and the Mande-Speaking Peoples
The Empire of Mali
East Africa and the India Ocean
The Trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean Slave Trade
Depiction of slave market in Baghdad, connected to trans-Saharan Indian Ocean slave trade, ca. 1300
Trans-Saharan Trade in Africa, ~1300
Musa I of Mali on his throne, surrounded by images of gold (1375)
Islam in a Time of Political Fragmentation
Becoming the Middle East
Afro-Eurasian Merchants
Diversity and Uniformity in Islam
Political Integration and Disintegration
What was Islam?
Whirling dervishes from Sufi cultural festival – understood as an important means of reaching union with God
The Medieval Islamic World
India as “Cultural Mosaic”
Rajas and Sultans
Invasions and Consolidations
What was India?
Lodi Gardens – Lodi Dynasty was the last Delhi sultan dynasty, 1451-1526
South Asia and Central Eurasia, 1200
Song China: Insiders versus Outsiders
China’s Economic Progress
Money and Inflation
New Elites
Negotiating with Neighbors
What was China?
Song Dynasty painting attributed to Li Guanglin of the great Tang Dynasty General Guo Ziyi receiving the submission of Uighur soldiers.
East and Southeast Asia, 1200
The Mongol Transformation of Afro-Eurasia
Who were the Mongols?
Military Skills
Conquest and Empire
Mongols in China
Mongol Reverberations in Southeast Asia
The Fall of Baghdad
Mongol cavalry archery from Rashid-al-Din Hamadani's Universal History using the Mongol bow
Mongol Campaigns and Conquests, 1200-1300
Conclusions
Between 1000 and 1300 ce, Afro-Eurasia formed large trade and migration spheres, which led to cultural integration and the first truly “global” world (absent integration of Americas)
Merchants, scholars, and travelers became commercial and cultural intermediaries (cosmopolitan identity), or new classes of people
Many of the contemporary borders and geographic boundaries of the world were formed during this period
Mongol political integration brought evidence of new cross-cultural exchanges of “global” world to ordinary people’s lives
Key terms: Delhi Sultanate; dhows; entrepôts; karim; Kubilai Khan; Mongols; rajas; Sufism
