Eurasia

Examples of Eurasia in the following topics:

• Europe's Early Trade Links

  • A prelude to the Age of Discovery was a series of European expeditions crossing Eurasia by land in the late Middle Ages undertaken by a number of explorers, including Marco Polo, who left behind the most detailed and inspiring record of his travels across Asia.  
  • A prelude to the Age of Discovery was a series of European expeditions crossing Eurasia by land in the late Middle Ages.
  • Although the Mongols had threatened Europe with pillage and destruction, Mongol states also unified much of Eurasia and, from 1206 on, the Pax Mongolica allowed safe trade routes and communication lines stretching from the Middle East to China.
  • Recall the exploration of Eurasia in the Middle Ages by Marco Polo, which was a prelude to the advent of the Age of Discovery in the 15th Century

• Mediterranean Trade and European Expansion

  • The prelude to the Age of Discovery was a series of European expeditions crossing Eurasia by land in the late Middle Ages.
  • Although the Mongols had threatened Europe with pillage and destruction, Mongol states also unified much of Eurasia and, from 1206 on, the Pax Mongolica allowed safe trade routes and communication lines stretching from the Middle East to China—known as the silk road .

• The Pleistocene Extinction

  • Eurasia and Africa do not show this pattern, but they also did not experience a recent arrival of humans.
  • Humans arrived in Eurasia hundreds of thousands to over one million years ago, after the origin of the species in Africa.

• Early Homo

  • Our ancestors repeatedly left Africa to populate Eurasia and, eventually, the Americas and Oceania.
  • They spread throughout Africa and Eurasia between 1.3 to 1.8 million years ago.

• Islamic Glass Making

  • For most of the Middle Ages, Islamic luxury glass was the most sophisticated in Eurasia, exported to both Europe and China.
  • For most of the Middle Ages, Islamic glass was the most sophisticated in Eurasia, exported to both Europe and China.

• Overview of the Mongol Empire

  • The vast transcontinental empire connected the east with the west with an enforced Pax Mongolica, or Mongol Peace, allowing trade, technologies, commodities, and ideologies to be disseminated and exchanged across Eurasia.
  • This style of dress, with the fur hat, long coat, and saber, would have been popular in regions in and around Russian, Eurasia, and Turkey.

• Tularemia

  • F. tularensis palaearctica (Type B) occurs mainly in aquatic rodents (beavers, muskrats) in North America and in hares and small rodents in northern Eurasia.

• Temperate Grasslands

  • Temperate grasslands are found throughout central North America, where they are also known as prairies, and within Eurasia, where they are known as steppes .

• Art in the Second Millennium B.C.E.

  • It was considered some of the finest in western Eurasia, rivaling that of Ancient Egypt in sophistication and grandeur.

• The New World

  • Scientists believe that migrations of humans from Eurasia (the combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia) to the Americas first took place via Beringia, a land bridge which formerly connected the two continents across what is now the Bering Strait.