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  1. Global Travel and Trade
    1. translation of Ptolemy's Geography
    2. Portuguese maps and charts
    3. caravels
    4. explorers: Vasco da Gama, Christopher Columbus
  2. The African Cultural Heritage
    1. geographic, linguistic, social, religious, and political characteristics
    2. West African Kingdoms
    3. African literature
      1. griots (epic)
      2. myth
      3. African Poetry
    4. African Music and Dance
    5. African Sculpture
    6. African Architecture
  3. Cross-Cultural Encounter
    1. Ibn Battuta in West Africa
    2. The Europeans in Africa
  4. The Americas:
    1. Native American Cultures
    2. The Arts of Native North America
      1. Kachina dolls
      2. ceremonial masks
      3. pueblos
      4. kivas
      5. poetry, music, and dance
      6. myth
    3. The Arts of Meso-and South America
      1. the Maya
      2. The Empires of the Inkas and the
    4. Aztecs
  5. Cross-Cultural Encounter
    1. The Spanish in the Americas
    2. Hernán Cortés
    3. The Aftermath of Conquest
    4. The Columbian Exchange





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