Headlines in history the 1200s
Divided into geographical areas, this book explores challenges civilizations faced in the 1200s, focusing on the Aztecs, the Arab-Islamic world, the Mongols, the Europeans, and the Chinese.
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San Diego, CA
Greenhaven press
2001
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1
- Decline of Empire and the Papacy in Europe
- Thomas Aquinas and high medieval philosophy in Europe
- Thomas Aquinas's proof of God's existence
- Magna Carta
- Travels of Marco Polo
- Francis of assisi and the founding of the franciscan order
- Vanity of painted women
- Gothic style
- Fourth crusade and the sack of Constantinople
- Destruction of Constantinople
- University system in thirteenth-century Europe
- Jews and the western church
- Decree of the hanseatic league
- Chapter 2
- Mongol expansion
- Marco Polo describes Kublai Khan
- Chinese literati under Mongol rule
- Advice of Yeh-lu Ch'u-ts'ai
- Islamic envoy to Genghis Khan in peking
- Japan in the thirteenth century
- Mogol invasions of Japan
- Chapter 3
- Islam in North Africa
- Mamluks in Egypt
- Islamic Art
- Arab world under assault
- Chapter 4
- Mali empire of western Africa
- Rise of Aztec civilization
- North American Indians of Cahokia.