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Song China and the Steppe Peoples
Season 1
The Song dynasty revived and strengthened Confucian civilization in the areas it ruled. Technology improved agricultural yields and laid the groundwo…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Crusading Movement
Season 1
The Crusades were a movement that signaled the growth of the papacy’s influence in western Europe and helped to stimulate trade, the growth of the It…
2 years, 8 months ago
Patriarch and Papacy: The Church and the Call to Crusade
Season 1
The period of recovery from the collapse of the Carolingian Empire brought about the ordering of society from the lowliest serf to the kings of weste…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Seljuk Migration and the Call from the East
Season 1
The Abbasid rulers had established their control over the Middle East and created a multiethnic, multireligious society that promoted trade, scholars…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Post-Roman West in the Early Middle Ages
Season 1
The early Middle Ages helped set the stage for a new society to emerge from Roman, Christian, and Germanic traditions, and for a revival of the class…
2 years, 9 months ago
Border States: Sogdiana, Korea, and Japan
Season 1
Sogdiana was vital to the operation of the Silk Roads beginning in the fourth century CE. Over the course of some four hundred years, Sogdian city-st…
2 years, 9 months ago
East-West Interactions in the Early Middle Ages
Season 1
The Silk Roads originated in the Han dynasty’s trade with nomadic peoples from the Inner Asian Steppe and grew into a vast network that crisscrossed …
2 years, 9 months ago
The rise and fall of the Sui and Tang dynasties in China
Season 1
The new religion of Islam came into India with waves of invaders, from Turkic speakers of central Asia to Arabs from the distant west. In the process…
2 years, 9 months ago
South Asia in the Early Middle Ages
Season 1
The new religion of Islam came into India with waves of invaders, from Turkic speakers of central Asia to Arabs from the distant west. In the process…
2 years, 9 months ago
Islamization and Religious Rule under Islam
Season 1
Through a process of conquest, conversion, and coexistence, the early Abbasids created a cosmopolitan medieval empire centered at their new capital o…
2 years, 9 months ago