Between 1450 and 1600 CE the world became entangled globally, as European explorer’s circumnavigated the globe, and established a network of maritime trade routes. This page contains links to the resources that supported the Shepway and District u3a’s Seminar for the Science, Philosophy, and Spirituality Group in October 2024.
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An article summarising how Ottoman domination of Indian and Chinese trade routes to Europe led to European maritime exploration of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans between 1450 and 1600. Subsequent European colonisation of America and Africa transformed global interactions, destroyed ancient and long-standing empires in the Americas, established the Atlantic slave trade, and amplified the religious upheaval in Europe.
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Much of the history we were taught at school was Eurocentric, reinforcing our Western worldview and way of thinking. This page contains resources from the Shepway and District u3a Science, Philosophy and SpiritualityGroup session on the early Mediaeval period (roughly 500 AD to 1000 AD) The approach is to look at the history differently: starting with the birth and flourishing of Islamic culture, turning to its Eastern contact with Tang China, its Western borders in Asia with Byzantium, and finally it’s struggle with Western Christendom.
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Much of the history we were taught at school was Eurocentric, reinforcing our Western worldview and way of thinking. This brief review of the early Mediaeval period (roughly 500 AD to 1000 AD) looks at it differently: starting with the birth and flourishing of Islamic culture, turning to its Eastern contact with Tang China, its Western borders in Asia with Byzantium, and finally it’s struggle with Western Christendom.
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Resources supporting the Shepway and District u3a Science, Philosophy, and Spirituality discussion group, Season 2, Session 2.4 – The Rise of Christianity
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