The Big Picture I: From Afro- Eurasia to the World, ca. 1200 to 1700 21H.009 SPRING 2014 1 Mongolian Expansion, 1200s Sir Geoffrey Luttrell on his war horse and In armor, with his two daughters. Luttrell Psalter, ca. 1320-1340 This image is in public domain. Mongolian horsemen, 15th-century Arabic Compendium of Chronicles This image is in public domain. 2 HEIGHT OF THE MONGOL CONQUESTS, CA. 1260 CE © Source unknown. All rights reserved. This content is excluded from our Creative Commons license. For more information, see http://ocw.mit.edu/help/faq-fair-use/. 3 Pope Innocent IV sends an embassy to Güyük Khan. Illuminated French manuscript, ca. 1400-1410 Güyük at a feast. illuminated Persian manuscript, 1438 Güyük’s response to Innocent, 1246. Vatican Secret Archives These images are in public domain. 4 © Source unknown. All rights reserved. This content is excluded from our Creative Commons license. For more information, see http://ocw.mit.edu/help/faq-fair-use/. 5 Global population change in the 14th century Source: Robert Tignor, et al., Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, 4th ed., 2014, p. 410 © W. W. Norton and Company. All rights reserved. This content is excluded from our Creative Commons license. For more information, 6 see http://ocw.mit.edu/help/faq-fair-use/. EURASIAN RELIGIONS, CA. 1500 CE © Source unknown. All rights reserved. This content is excluded from our Creative Commons license. For more information, see http://ocw.mit.edu/help/faq-fair-use/. 7 Islam & Christianity in Africa Before 1500 Portuguese coat of arms given to Congolese King Nzinga a Nkuwu (1491-1506), who took the name “Alfonso I” upon conversion to Christianity This image is in public domain. This image is in public domain. Mansa Musa I, ruler of Malian Empire ca. 1312-1337. From Catalan Mappamundi, 1375. The text to the right of Mansa reads: “This Black lord is called Musa Mali, Lord of the peoples of Guinea. So abundant is the gold which is found in his country that he is the richest and most noble king in all the land.” 8 Sub-Saharan Africa, 1500-1800 © Source unknown. All rights reserved. This content is excluded from our Creative Commons license. For more information, see http://ocw.mit.edu/help/faq-fair-use/. 9 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1519-1556 Portraits by Titian, 1548 & 1547 These images are in public domain. 10