MW Primary Sources

Confucius sayings

Chinese philosopher, confusionism was a sort of belief system and was the basis of regulating relationships

The Ming Shi-lu

detailed Zheng He’s seven voyages. the boats were huge in comparison to other empires like the spanish

King Afonso’s letter to the king of Portugal

trying to get the Portuguese to stop taking people with high social status in Kongo as slaves. He passed laws that tried to stop this but they didn’t work

Martin Luther’s address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation

Started the protestant reformation because he was unhappy with the greediness of the Catholic church. Church was selling indulgences that were basically time off from purgatory

The saga of Eric the Red

Leif Erikson’s discovery of America. Showed how Vikings had found North America and Greenland

An Aztec account of the Spanish attack

Describes the interaction between Cortes and Montezuma. Describes the destruction of Tenochtitlan

Bartolome de las casas description of the exploitation of indigenous peoples

He was a priest who wrote directly to the King of Spain calling for him to stop and create laws against the brutal treatment of the Native Americans