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Medieval Sub-Saharan Africa
Season 1
Medieval African kingdoms and polities controlled vast territories, used emerging technologies, and governed populations that were heterogeneous and …
2 years, 11 months ago
Culture and Society in Medieval Africa
Season 1
Africa’s ancient migrations diffused technological and cultural innovations that helped establish settlements later enriched by the spread of new bel…
2 years, 11 months ago
Christianity and Islam outside Central Asia
Season 1
The forces of centralization and conformity in Western Christendom scored important victories, crushing heretical movements and formalizing instituti…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Mongol Empire Fragments
Season 1
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, 11 months ago
Chinggis Khan and the Early Mongol Empire
Season 1
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, 11 months ago
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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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…
3 years ago