GINS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dynasties In Chinese History, Stonemasonry, Yuan Dynasty

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Global and International Studies
• Course: GINS 1000
• Professor: Candace Sobers

Document Summary

Bits of the world you could see in the map were called the known world. Eratosthenes 200 bc: all of northern africa known as libya, perspective shift. We are not used to thinking of europe, africa, asia as the same world. Wrote books about his travels -- doesn"t mention great wall of china. Pilgrimage to mecca once in their life must undertake. Turkey, china, malaysia, sri lanka, somalia, etc. Viking voyages 790-1100 ce: empires, at its height, new commercial exchange networks, infrastructure to exchange goods over long distances, long scale migration streams, large amounts of people moving very far distances. Take animals, plants, bring diseases/dna, ideas (gender relations, religion, governance) United people as confederacy as him as the leader. Ecumene the known world: this was used to refer all known places where people lived. Integration of global space the merge of societies (people, ideas, religion and disease)