History 201 - THE SILK ROAD & PREMOD EURASIA

Spring
2016
01
4.00
Richard Lim
MW 02:40-04:00
Smith College
40983-S16
SEELYE 311
rlim@smith.edu
The premodern contacts, imagined and real, between East and West. Cultural, religious and technological exchanges between China, India and Rome. The interactions between these sedentary societies and their nomadic neighbors. The rise and fall of nomadic empires such as that of the Mongols. Trade, exploration and conquest on the Eurasian continent. We sample pertinent travel accounts as a form of ethnographical knowledge that reproduces notions of cultural identity and civilization.
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