I found this while reading the WSJ and thought it was very similar to our falsafa lectures
Author: mnelson3
My Classics professor sent me a link to a Zoom conference on archaeology and the speaker (A. Asa Eger) was talking about the physical border between the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Empire. He talked about literary sources on the retreat of the Byzantines from Syria (and why it was important in the Islamic world) and then the geographical features separating Byzantine-held Anatolia from Arab-held Syria. I couldn’t find a recording of the webinar, but I found the speaker published a book that seems to have a lot of the same material:
I was listening to a podcast about Mongol history to reinforce some of the basic facts and timeline covered in Weatherford. I’m not sure if the podcaster Corey Still is a real historian, but he uses primary sources we talked about in class and secondary sources by authors in Professor Al-Tikriti’s file of articles, so I think the visual aids he has on his website are sound. Here’s some links to a family tree of the Borjigins, some relevant dynasties near the Steppes, and a map of the people groups crowding the Steppes during Temujin’s childhood.