HIS 295-02 - Special Topic: Global Cultural Encounters, 1419-1788

4 credits (Fall)

After 1419 new technologies of navigation, trade, communication, and warfare facilitated increasing contact and conflict between culturally distinctive peoples. This course will explore significant encounters between conquistadors and warriors, diplomats and merchants, missionaries and mandarins, slaves and aristocrats, translators and inquisitors, and men and women, in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. How did these meetings shape the dawn of the global age?

Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Instructor: Pollnitz