HIST 48T/58L Updated Schedule

Lecture 1 (8 Oct 2009)
Alexander and his Eastern Thrust

Lecture 2 (15 Oct 2009)
Zhang Qian and the Opening of the Silk Road

Lecture 3 (22 Oct 2009)
Beauty of Loulan and the Tarim Basin During Han China

Lecture 4 (3 Nov 2009)
Buddhist Monks Bringing Scriptures to China (YD 106)

Lecture 5 (12 Nov 2009)
The Itinerant Sogdians

Lecture 6 (19 Nov 2009)
Battle of Talas – Midterm

Lecture 7 (24 Nov 2009)
Nestorians, Manicheans, Jews and Muslims in Tang & Song China (NH 202)

Lecture 8 (1 Dec 2009)
Mongol Rule

Lecture 9
Medieval Travelers

Lecture 10
The Timurids

Lecture 11
The Safavids and Uzbeks