Writing Homework Help

Student will submit a summary (150-200 words in length each) of two document excerpts, listed in the week 7 assignments section, and your personal comments/reaction (150-200 words) for each document summary. Please read the instructions on how to complete the document summary assignment BEFORE posting the assignment so that you submit a complete assignment.

1. Select two of these documents to complete the weekly document summary assignment.

History of the Monks to Kublai Khan: http://www.nestorian.org/history_of_rabban_bar_sawma_1.html (Links to an external site.)

NOTE: If you select this document, you do not need to read the entire book. Scan through and read about two chapters of your choice.

Excerpt. Travels of Marco Polo: https://www.scasd.org/cms/lib5/PA01000006/Centricity/Domain/1482/MarcoPolo.pdf (Links to an external site.)

Letter, Chinggis Khan to Daoist Master Changchun: Using the primary sources in the ‘Working with Evidence’ section at the end of Chapter 11, discuss how the nature of written and pictorial evidence | Course Hero (Links to an external site.)

Siege of Jerusalem: Collected Accounts (Read three of them) https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/cde-jlem.asp (Links to an external site.)

Nicetas Choniates: The Sack of Constantinople (1204) https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/choniates1.asp (Links to an external site.)

Pope Gregory VII Ban on Lay Investitures, 1078 https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/g7-invest1.asp (Links to an external site.)

Bernard Gui: Inquisitorial Technique (c.1307-1323)

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/heresy2.asp (Links to an external site.)

The Fall of Constantinople, 1453 http://www.greece.org/Romiosini/fall.html (Links to an external site.)

Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa 1325- 1354 https://resources.saylor.org/wwwresources/archived/site/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Ibn-Battuta-Travels-in-Asia-and-Africa-1325-1354.pdf (Links to an external site.)

Francesco Petrarch: Letters, c 1372 https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/petrarch1.asp (Links to an external site.)

Francesco Petrarch: Account of the Black Death https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/plague/perspectives/petrarca2.php