history

1)

 Read "Letter-exchange between Pope Innocent IV and Guyuk-khan" and make a summary or outline (can be a bulleted list) of the reasons put forth by the Mongol khan 

to reject the pope's peace proposal.

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(2)

 Read "Pegolotti_The Practice of Commerce" and make a list of the explicit things that Pegolotti thinks one would need while traveling to China for trade purposes, and then another with anything you can infer from the text regarding China, its trade with foreigners, commercial relations East-West etc.

We will go over these documents in class.