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DESCRIPTION:Valerie Hansen and Morris Rossabi will present at the Global Mi
 ddle Ages Seminar. They will each give a short paper followed by a moderat
 ed conversation and Q&A session.“The World’s Most Active Sea Route Before 
 1492: From the Chinese\nports of Quanzhou and Guangzhou to Basra (in Moder
 n Iraq) and Sofala (in Modern\nMozambique)” (Valerie Hansen)\n\nStarting a
 round the year 1000\, Chinese ships began to voyage to\nthe Persian Gulf a
 nd sometimes even farther to the East African coast\, a\njourney three tim
 es as long as Columbus’s voyage to the Americas. The Chinese\nimported hug
 e quantities of what they called aromatics (the blanket term xiang\ncovere
 d fragrant woods\, incense\, spices\, and tree resins such as\nfrankincens
 e and myrrh) from Southeast\, South\, and West Asia\, and they exported\nt
 extiles\, metal goods\, and ceramics to these regions as well as East Afri
 ca.\nThese contacts had multiple effects\, some of which we can study on t
 he basis of\narcheological finds\, particularly of ceramics. Hansen will e
 xplore why this\nroute isn’t better known. Although traditional treatments
  of the medieval period\ndo not cover this topic\, it certainly falls with
 in the purview of the Global\nMiddle Ages.\n\n'The Golden Horde: Recent Di
 scoveries in Russia' (Morris Rossabi)\n\nUntil the late twentieth century\
 ,\nmany Russians and foreigners portrayed Mongol rule in Russia as totally
 \ndisastrous and despotic and leading to autocracy in the country's later
 \nhistory. In the 1980s\, specialists on the period of the Golden Horde\, 
 while not\nignoring the death and destruction caused by the Mongols\, asse
 rted that the\nMongols contributed to Russia's first unification\, fostere
 d trade and religion\,\nbuilt new cities\, and patronized and supported th
 e arts. Historians and\narcheologists have recently confirmed some positiv
 e aspects of Golden Horde\nrule. This slide-illustrated lecture provides t
 he historical background and\nshows samples of the latest archeological an
 d artistic discoveries in ceramics\,\ntextiles\, and metal work.Valerie Ha
 nsen teaches Chinese and world history at Yale\, where she is the Stanley 
 B. Woodward Professor of History. Her current book is The World in the Yea
 r 1000: When Globalization Began. Earlier monographs include The Silk Road
 : A New History with Documents (2012) and The Open Empire: A History of Ch
 ina to 1800 (2015). Hansen is a frequent visitor to Asia teaching at Yale’
 s undergraduate program at Peking University\, Yale-NUS College in Singapo
 re\, and as an invited scholar at Xiamen University in Fujian province\, C
 hina.Morris Rossabi (PhD Columbia University) was born in Alexandria\, Egy
 pt\, and teaches Chinese and Mongolian history at the City University of N
 ew York and Columbia.  Author and editor of numerous books\, including Khu
 bilai Khan\, Modern Mongolia\, Voyager from Xanadu\, From Yuan to Modern C
 hina and Mongolia: The Writings of Morris Rossabi\, and A History of China
 \, as well as dozens of articles\, he has collaborated on catalogues for a
 rt exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Cleveland Museum of
  Art\, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has traveled extensive
 ly and lectured in the Middle East\, China\, Japan\, Korea\, Central Asia\
 , and Mongolia and speaks several European\, Middle Eastern\, and East Asi
 an languages. The National Mongolian University awarded him an honorary do
 ctorate in 2009.This event will be held via Zoom. A link will be circulate
 d to registrants by 10 am on the day of the event. This event will be live
  with automatic captions.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: The Global Middle Ages Seminar
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