Resources for Your Exploration

PLEASE NOTE – THESE ARE NOT THE ONLY RESOURCES – YOU MAY USE GOOGLE TO SEARCH FOR OTHERS (JUST MAKE SURE TO REFERENCE ALL SOURCES USED)

• Reference Text:
  • Mansa Musa I of Mali: Gold, Salt, and Storytelling in Medieval West Africa – Reference Text
    • Utilize the endnotes in the provided case study for additional scholarly resources.
• Course Lecture Materials:
• Use lecture slides and notes to gain a broader understanding of the historical context.
  • Global Tapestry Connections and Transformations (1200-1450 CE)
    • PDF
  • Lecture Notes – Highlights
• Focus on the comparative analysis of different empires and key events like the Black Death.
• Assigned (and Optional) Readings and Videos from Class
  • Overview – The Global Tapestry
  • Communities in Afro-Eurasia
  • Written in the Stars – Secrets of the Mongol Empire
  • The Americas 1200-1450
  • Oceania and the Pacific
  • Disease!: Crash Course
• Additional Readings/Videos:
  • Indian Ocean Routes
  • Trans-Saharan Routes
  • New World Networks
  • Archipelago of Trade
  • Crash Course: Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa
  • Ancient Aztecs | @HistorySkills | Flipboard
• Primary Sources:
  • A bunch of primary sources for the period: Internet History Sourcebooks: Medieval Sourcebook (fordham.edu) – Global (includes Byzantine, | Internet History Sourcebooks Project (fordham.edu)
    • Africa and Islam: Internet History Sourcebooks Project (fordham.edu)
    • African Societies (Look for Mali): Internet History Sourcebooks Project (fordham.edu)
    • Chinese (Look for Song/Sung): Internet History Sourcebooks Project (fordham.edu)
  • Indigenous Peoples – Primary Sources: Central, Latin, South America & The Caribbean – LibGuides at Christopher Newport University
  • Excerpts from the writings of Ibn Battuta or other travelers who visited Mali. (Mentioned in Mansa Musa I of Mali: Gold, Salt, and Storytelling in Medieval West Africa – Reference Text)
  • Primary_Sources-Mongol_Collection.pdf (gebeasley.org)
  • Primary Sources – The Black Death (gebeasley.org)
  • Kingdom of Mali | African Studies Center (bu.edu)
  • Journey to Mali: 1350 – 1351 | ORIAS (berkeley.edu)
  • Overview – Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu | Exhibitions – Library of Congress (loc.gov)
  • Digital Florentine Codex (information about Mexica culture, the Aztec Empire, and the conquest of Mexico)
• Art and Architecture:
  • Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Saharan Frontiers
  • Web search with key words such as: Images of Malian mosques, artifacts, cultural expressions, monumental architecture, or other words referenced in the lecture notes.
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) – Polynesia
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) – Mongols
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) – Song (also search for Sung)
  • Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127) | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (metmuseum.org)
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) (Inca)
  • Aztec Stone Sculpture | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (metmuseum.org)
  • Tenochtitlan | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (metmuseum.org) (see also related essays and chronology in the sidebar)
• Websites and Online Resources:
  • Polynesia (Primary and Secondary) Wayfinders : Web Resources (pbs.org)
  • Home – The Polynesian expansion across the Pacific – LibGuides at St Albans Secondary College (stalbanssc.vic.edu.au)
  • Timbuktu – UNESCO World Heritage Centre
  • How UNESCO and Local Masons Rebuilt Timbuktu’s Ancestral Heritage — Google Arts & Culture
  • Is Mansa Musa the richest man who ever lived? (bbc.com)
  • Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu – UNESCO World Heritage Centre
  • Aztec Empire | For UNESCO World Heritage Travellers (worldheritagesite.org)
  • Did You Know? Hangzhou ‘House of Silk’ a Silk Roads Hub City | Silk Roads Programme (unesco.org) – Song/Sung Dynasty
  • 17.35: The Song Dynasty – Humanities LibreTexts
  • The Silk Route of the Mongols | Silk Roads Programme (unesco.org)
  • Background Information – HIST 347: The Mongol Empire (HC) – Research Guides at Tri-College Libraries (brynmawr.edu)
  • The Mongols and their State in the Twelfth to the Thirteenth Century | Silk Roads Programme (unesco.org)
  • The Mongol Empire in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries | Silk Roads Programme (unesco.org)