PRIDE WEEK EVENTS:

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PRIDE WEEK EVENTS 1. Queer Literature Night 
(Tues Oct 13) 600 1000 pm        2. LGBTQ
Movie Night (Wed Oct 14) 600 1000
pm Milk        4. Discussion Panel (Thurs
Oct 15) 600 1000 pm        Topic What Does
it Matter Anyways? Teaching LGBT History
and 930 History Trivia at Golden X Inn
        5. Variety Show (Fri Oct 16) 7-10
pm 6. Pride Parade (Sat Oct 17) Meet at
Confusion Square for 100 pm start 7.
Ecumenical Service (Sun Oct 18)        Details
TBA
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Agriculture, Trade and Demographics

• American crops effect cultural change in Muslim
  empires
• coffee, tobacco important
• opposition from conservatives, fearing lax
  morality
• of coffee houses
• population growth - but also reflects
  territorial additions
• and losses
• Trade English East India Company,
• French East India Company,
• and Dutch VOC

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Characterized by

• Religious Diversity
• Status of Religious Minorities
• Capital Cities

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Defining early-modern point of contact

• deteriorating leadership internal rot
• religious tensions role of women
• Safavid Shiites persecute Sunnis,
  non-Muslims, Sufis
• Wahhabi movement in Arabia denounces Ottomans as
  unfit to rule
• force destruction of observatory, printing press
• foreign trade controlled by Europeans
• Military, administrative network expensive
• Janissaries mutiny, 1589, other revolts follow
• European military technology advances faster than
  Ottomans can purchase it

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• What happens in the story?
• Who are the main characters?
• Is she a bad woman?
• On what basis do we make that judgment?
• What are the men in the story doing read
  carefully.
• If we read this as an allegory what could the
  story be arguing about Islamic society?
• Why might someone like
• Richard Burton have translated
• these stories into English?
• orientalism

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Recovery in Western Europe State Building and
Beyond

• China centralized Empire
• Europe regional states
  www.mahatma.org.in
• Europe develops new taxes how and why?
• Italian states bonds
• France salt tax
• England hearth tax,
• head tax
• plow tax
• large standing armies
• French Louis XI (1461-1483) had army of 15,000

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Why the need for large standing armies?

• Sipahi cavalry of the Ottoman
  Moorish architecture in Cordoba, Spain
  forces (service for tîmâr)

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Beyond brute force

• A. The Renaissance 14C-16C
• a re-discovery of classical culture
• perspective human anatomy and musculature
• Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
• architecture domed cathedrals
• B. Humanists
• literature, history, moral philosophy
• deeply devoted to Christianity
• Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) critical
  Greek-Latin edition of NT
• rediscovery of classical Latin texts, often
  ignored in monastic libraries
• rejection of monastic lifestyle morally virtuous
  life
• engaged in the world
• reconciliation of Christianity with rapidly
  changing European society

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Joan of Arc
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European Exploration in the Atlantic and Indian
Oceans

• Portuguese early leaders in Atlantic exploration
• motives

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Colonization of the Atlantic Islands

• Cuerta, North Africa
• Madeiras
• Azores Islands
• geopolitical value, and
• investments in sugarcane plantations
• further exploration of west African coast
• geopolitical
• discover cheap labour but class trumps race
  initially

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Indian Ocean Trade only the beginning

• 1488 Bartolomeu Dias around Cape of
  Good Hope
• 1497-1499 Vasco de Gama to India and back
• A naus ship style of the Gabriel
• May the Devil take thee! What brought you
  hither?

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Conclusion

• In order to understand any event, period,
  development
• Know the motives of the sides involved
• what at that time is shaping their choices?
  economic
• political
• beliefs
• push of restraints and pull of possibilities
• Be specific in terms of chronology
• Dont tell a story, organize an argument ie
  there should be a because