Unit 3 PSA Sources

Question 1

The Tale of Genji (written in Japan)

Answer 1

-written by Japanese woman educated in Chinese
-talking about women and their roles to please men from the perspective of men with correspondence

Question 2

The Arabian Nights (Persian and Indian Origin)

Answer 2

Two brothers who are kings. His wife betrays him and he promises to marry a woman and kill the woman the next morning because they are not chaste. Shahrazad tells stories and the king comes to trust her again and stays as his queen.

Question 3

Description of Ahmad Al Tinkukti from Ahmad Baba (Western Africa)

Answer 3

Family relations and accomplishments. Pilgrimage. Visiting noble temple and praising prophet and the door opened by itself so he could worship. Death memorial.

Question 4

Description of Muhammad Baghayogho from Ahmad Baba (Western Africa)

Answer 4

Patient in teaching and helping his students with books, love of books, shunning immorality, thinking well of mankind. Greatest teacher. Death memorial

Question 5

History of the Archbishoprics of Hamburg-Bremen

Answer 5

Barbarians overtaking ship and taking captives. One escapes and the barbarians sever the feet and hands and cut off the noses of those captured and cast them upon the land. Pirates called Vikings pay tribute to the king to plunder the barbarians

Question 6

Runic Memorial Inscriptions, Germany, Norway, and Sweden

Answer 6

stones in honor mainly mentioning travel by ship and the money made through traveling by sea

Question 7

Greenlanders’ Saga

Answer 7

Started with 35 or 25 ships and lost some. Found the ships again. Found Maarkland, Wood Land. Man in company missing and found vines and grapes. Called the land Vinland, Wineland.

Question 8

Polynesian Researches

Answer 8

Missionary talking about the Polynesians not being as “civilized”. Wondering about the origin of the inhabitants because it would be hard to derive from Malayan tribes. They were probably from the east (America?)

Question 9

Hawaiin Antiquities

Answer 9

Voyagers by stars came to Hawaii and brought knowledge regarding Tahiti. Kings travel back and forth between Tahiti and the main Hawaiian shore. Believed that the Hawaiian are thought to be of one race with the people of Tahiti and the islands adjacent to it

Question 10

Oral Traditions of Rennel and Bellona

Answer 10

Voyage to Rennell and Bellona. Brought their temples and gods. Going on canoes and introducing many gods.

Question 11

Travels of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela (Constantinople)

Answer 11

Many merchants trading from all over. All other places in the whole world do not equal to S. Sophia in riches. Public places to celebrate including the birth of Jesus the nazarene. Palace. Tribute. Jews treatment

Question 12

Conquest of Constantinople from Robert of Clari

Answer 12

Wealth of palace with many chapels. Wealth of Saint Sophia. Games of the Emperor in public place. Recount the hundredth part of richness and beauty and nobility, it would seem a lie

Question 13

Destruction of Ancient Art in the Latin Sack of Constantinople

Answer 13

Opened graves. Taking all wealth. Even the statue of Hercules

Question 14

The Byzantine Recovery of Constantinople: Thanksgiving and Celebration

Answer 14

Golden Gate and emperor. Reciting prayers

Question 15

Chrysobull Detailing Extraordinary Privileges for the Venetians (Constantinople)

Answer 15

Ships and seafaring men. Give gift of gold and freedom of religion and trade and exempt from takes.

Question 16

Letter of Hernan Cortes to Charles V, King of Spain (Tenochtitlan)

Answer 16

Many squares and merchandise. Wealth in things traded. Many temples with one big one. Wealth of houses. Canoes paddle through all the streets selling the water. Aqueducts.

Question 17

The Discovery and conquest of Mexico (Tenochtitlan)

Answer 17

Order and control. Market place. cursed temple. Talk about rituals being brutal. built in the water. so well regulated and arranged that they had never beheld before.