Old World Contacts
INDEX OF ARTICLES

        ARMIES
THE CROSSBOW
GREEK FIRE
GUNPOWDER
THE MACEDONIANS
– Alexander the Great
THE HUNS
– Attila
– Stirrups
THE CRUSADES
THE MONGOLS
– Genghis Khan
– Kublai Khan
– Kamikaze
– Tamerlane
– The Game of Chess
NOMADIC INVADERS
 
    COLONISTS
SUGAR AND THE CONQUEST OF THE CANARY ISLANDS
 
    MERCHANTS & TRADERS
DIASPORA TRADE COMMUNITIES
– Resident Alien Populations
– Samarkand
– Venice
– Kilwa
– – The Mwene Mutabe
– Malacca
– – The Chinese Tribute System
ECUMENICAL TRADE ZONE
– Banking Facilities
THE BLACK PLAGUE
– Boccaccio's Black Plague
AFRICA
– Gao Commercial Capital
– Ethiopia (Abyssinia)
TRADE IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST
PORTUGUESE ENTRY INTO THE INDIAN OCEAN TRADE
 
    MISSIONARIES & PILGRIMS
 
    DIPLOMATS & TRAVELLERS
NOMADS
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
– Prester John
– Ibn Battuta
– Marco Polo
– John de Plano Carpini
MING TREASURE SHIP VOYAGES
 
    MODES OF TRANSPORT
CAMELS AND CARAVANS
ROADS
– The Silk Road
SHIPS OF THE OLD WORLD
– Navigation
 
    TIME PERIOD OVERVIEWS
FIRST PERIOD: 330 BCE - 400 CE
SECOND PERIOD: 400 - 1000 CE
THIRD PERIOD: 1000 - 1350 CE
FOURTH PERIOD: 1350 - 1500 CE 

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