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Cast of Characters | |
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Map of an Age of Voyages, 1350-1600 | |
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Introduction | |
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Disease and Disaster: The Dreadful 14th Century | |
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Fleas, Rats, and Catapulted Corpses | |
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Poisoned Air, Poisoned Wells, or Poisoned Souls? | |
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Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, 1351 | |
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Renaissance Men and Renaissance Money: Learning and Art in Italy and Beyond | |
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You're a Genius! | |
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The Prince, a Spanish Gentleman, and The Greatest Playwright Who Ever Lived | |
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Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks, 1480-1510s | |
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Ghosts, Monkeys, or Confucius: Learning as Power in Ming China | |
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The Emperor's New Idea | |
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Ming's Beautiful Things | |
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Confucian elder, instruction manual for how to run a household, late 16th century | |
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Black and White and Read all Over: The Printing Press | |
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Saints' Lives and Printer's Devils | |
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A Single Invention Changes the World | |
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Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Wythe, January 16, 1796 | |
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Luther, Loyola, Mobs, and Massacres: The Protestant and Catholic Reformations | |
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Reforms, Revolts, and Riots | |
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One Good Reformation Deserves Another | |
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Martin Luther, The Freedom of a Christian, 1520 | |
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"Astonishing," "Magnificent," "Great": Rulers and Religion in Europe and Asia | |
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Jewish Scapegoats and Christian Soldiers | |
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The Tiger and His Tolerant Grandson | |
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Muhammad Akbar, speech delivered to the scholars of many religions at his court, 1580 | |
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Guts, Gain, and Glory: Powerful Monarchs in England and Africa | |
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From the Tower of London to the Top of the World | |
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Timbuktu and the Kongo, Too | |
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Elizabeth I, speech before English troops, Tilbury, England, 1588 | |
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"Everything the World Has to Offer": City Life | |
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My City is Greater Than Your City | |
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This City Stinks! | |
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Hernan Cortes, letter to King Charles V of Spain, 1520 | |
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Silk and Spices: Travel and Trade in the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean | |
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A Sakk of Riches | |
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The Navigator Prince Sends Ships Sailing | |
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Ma Huan, journal about his voyages with Zheng He, 1451 | |
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"Columbia" or "America"? Names and Fame in a "New World" | |
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The New World-No Gold, But Plenty of Fish | |
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Finders, Keepers? | |
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Christopher Columbus, letter to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand, 1493 | |
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Sailors, Sugar, and Slaves: How European Voyages Changed Asia and Africa | |
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Like Fish Out of Water | |
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Sugar's Bitter Story | |
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Richard Ligon, True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes, 1673 | |
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Germs, Silver, and Blood: New World Conquests and Global Connections | |
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An Empire in the Mountains with a Silver Lining | |
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From Trade Triangle to World Wide Web | |
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An Aztec account of Cortes's conquest of Mexico, 1528 | |
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Glossary | |
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Timeline | |
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Further Reading | |
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Websites | |