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The Long-Term Effects of the Global Transformation during the 14th Century
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The challenges and crises of the fourteenth century generated many social and cultural changes as the societies of Afro-Eurasia sought to recover and…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Black Death from East to West
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From the 1340s to the 1350s, the Black Death unleashed a wave of death and devastation across Afro-Eurasia. This global pandemic of bubonic plague no…
2 years, 7 months ago
Famine, Climate Change, and Migration in the 14th Century
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The field of historical climatology has enabled historians to combine analyses of written sources with data about the ecological environment of the p…
2 years, 7 months ago
Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century
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The fourteenth century was a time of profound political change across Afro-Eurasia. From the rise of the Yuan dynasty to the emergence of the Il-Khan…
2 years, 7 months ago
The People of the Sahel
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During the Mali Empire’s period of decline, the Soninke-speaking people of the Niger established a new polity centered on the trade city of Gao, whic…
2 years, 7 months ago
Medieval Sub-Saharan Africa
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Medieval African kingdoms and polities controlled vast territories, used emerging technologies, and governed populations that were heterogeneous and …
2 years, 8 months ago
Culture and Society in Medieval Africa
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Africa’s ancient migrations diffused technological and cultural innovations that helped establish settlements later enriched by the spread of new bel…
2 years, 8 months ago
Christianity and Islam outside Central Asia
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The forces of centralization and conformity in Western Christendom scored important victories, crushing heretical movements and formalizing instituti…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Mongol Empire Fragments
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While Kublai’s Yuan dynasty reunited China and gave it the same ruler as the Mongol homeland and much of central Asia, it revived neither the prosper…
2 years, 8 months ago
Chinggis Khan and the Early Mongol Empire
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Chinggis Khan ruled the Mongol Empire for twenty-one years. In that time, he established a law code, the yassa, that he hoped would allow his seminom…
2 years, 8 months ago