Honors Humanistic Traditions I: Week 13

Fiero 18

Questions

• What does it mean to think about history from radically different points of view?
• How does one culture look at another culture?

The Americas

Before Colonization

• Art
  • Ancient Art of the Americas
  • Mesoweb: An Exploration of Mesoamerican Cultures
  • Native Arts of the Americas - links to North, Central, and South America.
  • Precolumbian Art of Mesoamerica
  • VR Tour of Precolumbian Art
    
    
• Civilizations
  • Aztec
    • Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
      
      
  • Inca
    
    
  • Maya

Maritime Exploration and Conquest

• Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Exploration
• Columbus
  • Christopher Columbus: Selections from Journal, 1492
  • Christopher Columbus: Letter to King and Queen of Spain , prob. 1494
  • Columbus and the Age of Discovery A splendid, and searchable, collection of over 1100 text articles on Columbus and the encounter of two worlds.
  • The Columbus Navigation Home Page
    
    
• Amerigo Vespucci
  • Account of his First Voyage
    
    
• Cortez

Africa

General Resources

• Africa History Internet Sourcebook
  • African Societies
  • The Impact of Slavery
• African History Timelines
• African Art
• African Art (Met)
• Ibn Batuta
  • Ibn Batuta excerpts
  • Ibn Battuta on the Web

Africa Before 1500

Ancient Ghana

• Ghana Empire

Ancient Mali

• Sundiata
  • Sundiata links
  • Sundiata overview
  • Sundiata and Mansa Musa on the Web
• Mali Empire (with maps)
• Timbuktu
  • Timbuktu (History Channel)
  • Ancient Manuscripts from Timbuktu

Ancient Songhay

• Songhai Empire

Great Zimbabwe

• Great Zimbabwe images
• Great Zimbabwe (Nova)
• Great Zimbabwe (Met)

Africa, Race, and History

• Ibrahim Sundiata. Afrocentrism: The Argument We're Really Having

Western Orientalism

• John of Monte Corvino: Report on China, 1305
• "Sir John Mandeville": On Prester John , c. 1366, Full text of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
• Letter to Prester John, in Latin
• Marco Polo: On the Tartars [ 1254-1324]
• Marco Polo: Description of Kinsay [Hangchow] [ 1254-1324]