A. Agriculture

B.   Urban Growth and Urban Renaissance

B.

1. Old and New Cities and Towns






2.  Urban Social Structure






3.  Urban-Based International Trade

a. The Italian City-States and the East Mediterranean &  Black Seas

b. The Low Countries and Germany and the Baltic & North Sea

c.  Financial and Social Strutures

II. Europeans and the World, Europe and the Church

II

1. Traders and Explorers

a. Land Routes

b. Sea Routes

 

c. Ports & Cities

 

2. Travlers/Diplomats

a. General Importance

b. The Polo Family, 1271-1295

3. Missionaries

a. General Background

1. Christianty's Expansion 1000A.D.-1450A.D.n (took place inside and then beyond Europe)

a. Crusades, 1095 into mid-thirteenth century

b. Colonization/Christianization of Pagan Europe

c. Reconquest of Spain, c. 1060-1492

d. Reconquest of Sicily

e. Missionaries in the East

b. John of Montecorvino, (1247-1328)

A.  Anatolia and Northern Africa

1.  Tangier













2.  Alexandria and Cairo





















3.  Anatolian Cities

B.   India

1.  Merchants, Missionaries, and Soldiers











2. Agriculture and Urbanization

















3.  Trade & Cities