This course traces how people, goods, and ideas moved across the Indian Ocean world before 1500. Through shipwrecks, trade records, and travelers' accounts, we'll examine what enabled connections (monsoons, technologies) and what limited them (geography, social hierarchies). Students will analyze how these patterns of mobility and constraint shaped societies from East Africa to Southeast Asia.
GE historical study and diversity global studies course. GE theme migration, mobility, and immobility course.