World Civilization (GE 373)

Explores the nature of exchange and commerce and the effects it had in cities throughout the ancient world, from the Bronze Age Near East to late Roman northern Italy. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

During the heyday of camel caravan traffic--from the eighth century CE arrival of Islam in North Africa to the early twentieth-century building of European colonial railroads that linked the Sudan with the Atlantic--the Sahara was one of the world's great commercial highways, bringing gold, slaves, and other commodities northward and sending both manufactured goods and Mediterranean culture southward into the Sudan. Historian Ralph A. Austen here tells the remarkable story of an African world that grew out of more than one thousand years of trans-Saharan trading

Explores the history of the area now known as Afghanistan and its place on the Silk Road through its archeological treasures

This film covers the travels of Marco Polo through China, India, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia