For the past few weeks we have explored the rise and expansion of the Mongols, who dominated the Silk Road and much of Eurasia from Eastern Europe to the Pacific coast apart from South Asia and Eurasia’s farther northern reaches.  We have also examined the worlds of Muslim travellers such as Ibn Sina, Ibn Kaldun, and Ibn Battuta in the Islamic World as well as the merchants of the Indian Ocean World.  Opinions on these groups vary, but in the end all of them thought they were participating in some kind of zone in which different cultures interacted in order to survive: what historians call an intercultural zone.  For this essay you will write a clear, coherent, well-organized five paragraph in-class essay addressing what you think the ideal intercultural zone should look like.  You will use only two of the three documents that I will provide on the day you write the essay and anything that you have learned from Worlds of History, Ways of the World, When Asia was the World, or the class conference on intercultural zones.