World History › Section N · Crisis and new empires, 1300-1500 › Topic N.1
Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the early 1300s
Around 1300, Mongol khanates, the Mamluk sultans of Cairo and Europe's kings and popes ruled most of Afro-Eurasia's great cities. Their quarrels and weak points help explain why the famine and plague that followed hit so hard.
In this topic
- A connected and fragile world
- Yuan China under Kublai
- Strains on the Yuan
- Worked example: from flood to rebellion
- The Ilkhanate turns Muslim
- Worked example: why did Ghazan convert?
- The Mamluk Sultanate
- Europe: popes against kings
- The roots of the Hundred Years' War
- The Holy Roman Empire
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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