Reaching Out: Cross-Cultural Interactions
Dr. Jerry Bentley, History Dept.
Tying a hemisphere together
- Marco Polo (1271-1295)
- Ibn Battuta (1304-1369)
Zheng He (expeditions: 1405-1433)
- A Chinese discovery of America?
- The end of the Ming voyages
Christopher Columbus (expeditions: 1492-1502)
- The discovery of America?
- Opening the world's oceans
Roads (and sea lanes) to global interactions
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11/26/03