HIST1001 Notes

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Notes for each of the lectures as well as notes from each of the weekly tutorials. Topics Include: -Asian Views of the World in the 13th and 14th Centuries -Cannibals and Converts: North America through European Eyes -Climate, Disease and Populations: 14th Century Europe -Conversion stories; from the Franciscans to the Jesuits in Japan -Cultural Migrations: Korea and Japan in the Great East Asian War -European Social Hierarchies -Faith in Florida: The Timucua, Calusa, Spanish and French -Islam, Africa and the Indian Ocean in the 13th and 14th Centuries -Mapping European Imaginations -The Ottoman Empire -Peasant Societies, Asian Varieties: Ming China -Portuguese Pirate Traders in the Indian Ocean -Power and Culture in Heian Japan -Slavery and the Slave Trade -Europe, the Americas and the Columbian Exchange -The Eruption of Laki and European Revolution -The European takeover of the slave trade: Africans in the New World -The Globe at the end of the 18th Century: Africa and Asia -The Mughals and peasant society in India, 16th-17th Century -The Vikings -The VOC in the Indian Ocean; Slavery in Indonesia -Trade, rights and war: representative government in Europe -The Rise of the Merchant Class -England and Scotland: The path to civil war -Tutorial reading notes for weeks 3,4,5,6,8,9,10,11,12 Please note these are not in lecture order.