HIST-0040 Lecture 15: 22-Nov
Document Summary
Marco polo"s [1254-1324] account of his travels in asia : the travels of marco polo. Very famous and influential in the time period. Military conquests, [1279] south song, japan, southeast asia. The southern chinese hanren nanren (muslims, tibetans, and christians) Patronized painting, the decorative arts, and the theater, a golden age. Buddhist monasteries, islamic mosques, and nestorian christian churches. Islam, mosques in china -- good relations with the islamic world beyond china, persia and west asia. Economic problems less tolerant, distrustful of muslim merchants. [late 1270"s] anti-muslim legislation, forbidding circumcision slaughtering animals in the muslim fashion. Meanwhile, increased support for buddhists buddhist priests took advantage of their positions. Buddhism -- particularly the tibetan form of buddhism. Tibetan monks, buddhist monasteries, the translation of buddhist texts. [1255, 1256, 1258, 1281] buddhist and daoist monks debated the merits of their individual religions. Serious shortcomings in old mongol writing system.
