My paper is on the Mongol invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281. I found an interesting piece of art depicting the battle from the Japanese perspective and thought I’d share it.
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/11272/the-mongol-invasion-of-japan
This is my first medieval Islamic civilization class, so understanding everything that we were learning in class was a lot sometimes. However, the following video really helped me with reviewing most of the material we learned this semester.
Over Thanksgiving Break, my family and I rewatched Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) movie. In the intro, it mentioned the Ottomans fighting Vlad the Impaler, and I became interested learning more about the story behind this. I came to learn that it was Mehmed II (The Conqueror) who battled with Vlad the Impaler. The following is a YouTube video I found that covers this part of history.
A world map compiled in 1513 by the Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map still survives, seen in the image above. He cites twenty sources for the map, including eight Ptolemaic maps, an Arabic map of India, four Portuguese maps and the maps of Christopher Columbus featuring the ‘Western Lands’.
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_Reis_map
Someone on X had a good family tree for Shah Ismail, explaining the “perfect storm” mentioned in lecture.
Weirdly enough,a lot of Europeans took inspiration from the story of Tumambay/Tuman Bay, including biographies and artwork. I found this article which gives somewhat of an overview and focuses on Andre Thevet’s Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustrés. According to Milwright, “Thevet’s illustration shows the sultan bound in ropes, bare-headed and looking upward in a beseeching manner that invites comparison with European representations of Christian martyrs.” I have put up some of the European images as well as some of the more Islamicate art about the event. Milwright suggests that the Mamluk obsession, as opposed to just the oriental obsession, is because of the cultural exchanges that happened in Venice.
