Headlines in history the 1200s

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.…”

Headlines in history the 1300s

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 -- Battle of Bannockburn: Scots defeat the english -- Women, land, and inheritance in england -- Crime -- Trade and the hanseatic league -- Victory at sea -- Anti-semitism in Spain -- Deposing King Richard -- Great schism -- Chapter 2 -- Nobles -- Court life -- Serfs -- Peasants in the hundred years' war -- Wat Tyler's rebellion of 1381 -- Chapter 3 -- Famine of 1315-1322 -- Childhood in the fourteenth century -- Catherine of Siena -- Medieval play -- Food in the fourteenth century -- Petrarch -- Religious thought in the fourteenth century -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- Religious life -- Chapter 4 -- Plague and the decameron -- Medicine and the plague -- Long-term effects of the plague on society -- Chapter 5 -- Tensions in Japan -- Tughluq dynasty in India -- Ibn Battuta -- Rise of the Ottomans -- Timur -- Aztec empire -- Chapter 6 -- Mansa musa and the magnificence of Mali -- Life and government in Mali -- Chapter 7 -- Establishment of the ming dynasty -- Early ming wars and successions -- Trade in early ming times.…”