REL 231 - History of the Christian Church
Study Topics and Assignments
Week 10 - The Age of Exploration
Textbook Readings and Class Notes
- Chapter 10, pages 274-311
- Notes for Chapter 10
- Maps will be posted later
InterNet Resources
- InterNet Links for Week 10
- Other useful articles can be found by using GoodSearch
- You may use Wikipedia to give a lead to other sources and material, but you should not use it as a main source - Do not quote from it
This Week's Assignment : Who am I ?
Each person described below is mentioned in chapter 10 of the textbook. Identify the person and write a half-page first-person account of his life (write as if you were the person)
More details for these people can be found in the course notes and the InterNet resources.
- I traveled the Silk Road east from Europe and met Kublai Khan, the leader of the Mongols in China
- I went looking for "pepper and souls" and reached India
- I sailed West, looking for a new route to India, and found a new continent
- I set out to sail around the world, and although I was killed in the Philippines, some of my ships made it back to Portugal. I brought Christianity to the south Pacific Islanders
- I came from Spain with Columbus, and was the first Christian priest to be ordained in the New World. I became Bishop of Chiapas, and wanted to take care of the Indians
- I set up a community in Mexico, modeled on Thomas Moore's "Utopia"
- I was a Jesuit in Peru who designed a plan for Mission Stations
- I was the illegitimate son of a Spaniard and a freed slave woman. I became a Dominican friar, and am now counted amongst the saints
- I was a French Jesuit missionary to the Hurons who was killed by the Iroquois
- I set up a Baptist colony in Providence in 1639
- I was a friend of Ignatius Loyola, and traveled through India, Malaysia and Japan preaching and founding missions
- I was educated by Jesuits in Rome, learned Chinese and went to China as a missionary. I dressed like a Chinese scholar and translated Christian texts into Chinese
- I was a French Jesuit who traveled to Tonkin (Vietnam). Some of my converts also became missionaries
Remember to cite your sources
Use MSWord or a text editor such as Notepad to prepare and save your work, then submit it as one document to Turnitin via the Blackboard link
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