Chapter 11: Crises and Recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300-1500
Research Topics
The Mongol conquest of the thirteenth century encouraged greater cross cultural exchanges between the societies of Afro-Eurasia. One consequence of this contact was the spread of the bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, across many. While the impact of the plague on Western Christendom is well known today in the West, the plague´s influence on other regions is less commonly noted or understood. The first three documents offer Muslim scholars accounts of the plague within the Islamic world in the fourteenth century. The last document explores the plague in Italy. Using these sources and knowledge you gained from reading Chapter 11, compare and contrast the impact of the plague in the Islamic World and Christendom. What parts of each world suffered the brunt of the plague´s ravages? How did these regions respond?
Featured Documents
- Ahmad al Maqrizi, The Bubonic Plague in Syria and Egypt, 1453
- Ibn Knaldun on the Plague ( Fourteenth Century)
- Ibn Al-Wardi, "On the Advance of the Plague," 1348
- The Florentine Chronicle: Rubric 643: Concerning a Mortality in the City of Florence in Which Many People Died
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