Old World Contacts
INDEX OF ARTICLES
Fourth Period: 1350 - 1500 CE

        ARMIES
THE CROSSBOW 
GUNPOWDER 
THE MONGOLS 
- Genghis Khan 
- Kublai Khan 
- Kamikaze 
- Tamerlane 
- The Game of Chess 
NOMADIC INVADERS 
 
    COLONISTS
SUGAR AND THE CONQUEST OF THE CANARY ISLANDS 
 
    MERCHANTS & TRADERS
DIASPORA TRADE COMMUNITIES 
- Resident Alien Populations 
- Samarkand 
- Venice 
- Kilwa 
- - The Mwene Mutabe 
- Malacca 
- - The Chinese Tribute System 
ECUMENICAL TRADE ZONE
Banking Facilities
- The Cheque  
THE BLACK PLAGUE 
- Boccaccio's Black Plague 
AFRICA 
- Gao Commercial Capital 
- Ethiopia (Abyssinia) 
TRADE IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST 
PORTUGUESE ENTRY INTO THE INDIAN OCEAN TRADE 
 
    MISSIONARIES & PILGRIMS
 
    DIPLOMATS & TRAVELLERS
NOMADS 
TRAVEL & EXPLORATION 
- Prester John 
- Ibn Battuta 
- Marco Polo
 
    MODES OF TRANSPORT
CAMELS AND CARAVANS 
ROADS 
- The Silk Road 
SHIPS OF THE OLD WORLD 
- Navigation 
 

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