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Preface |
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Introduction |
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| 1. |
Teaching the Epic of Gilgamesh
______Kristen Grandfield |
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China: Soldiers, Sudoku and Stories
______Barbara Natale |
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| 3. |
Fact versus Film: How Hollywood Depicts the Crusades
in the Kingdom of Heaven
______Sarah Black |
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The 1183-1185 Hajj of Ibn Jubayr and Teaching Islam
______Justin Boucher |
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Two Twelfth-Century Couples: Heloise and Abelard of France and Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng of China
______Niki LaMontagne |
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| 6. |
An African Pilgrim-King and a World-Traveler: Mansa Musa and Ibn Battuta
______Christine Elmore |
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Ibn Battuta's Journey by Land and by Sea: Investigating Cultural Landscapes
______Paula Ranciato |
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| 8. |
The Expansion of Maps and Minds before 1500: Christopher Columbus, Ibn Battuta, and Google Earth
______Christopher Bostock |
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Who First Reached America: The Vikings, the Chinese Admiral Zheng He, or Columbus?
______Marialuisa Sapienza |
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| 10. |
The Voyages of Kennewick Man, Gilgamesh, Ashoka, Leif Eriksson, Li Qingzhao, and Ibn Battuta
______Mary Lou Narowski |
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Traveling with Ibn Battuta and the Plague through the Islamic World, China, Europe, and Mexico, 1325-1350
______Brad Magrey |
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