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Silk Road Traveler Identity Quest: Text, Kitty Lam
Silk Road Traveler Identity Quest: Text, Kitty Lam
Kitty Lam
Who wrote this text?
“In the country of ‘the lord of elephants’ the people are quick and enthusiastic, and entirely given to learning. They cultivate especially magical arts. They wear a robe thrown across them, with their right shoulder bare; their hair is done up in a ball on the top, and left undressed on the four sides. Their various tribes occupy different towns; their houses are built stage over stage.”
Crusades Primary Source Quest: Student Handouts, Kitty Lam
Crusades Primary Source Quest: Student Handouts, Kitty Lam
Kitty Lam
The scenario:
About 30 years ago, a group of archeologists discovered excerpts of texts written by people who had witnessed the Crusades, buried inside the tomb of a scholar who died in the late 13th century. The archaeologists hired Bernard, an archivist at the Museum of the Middle Ages, to analyze the texts and determine just exactly what these documents were and who wrote them. Unfortunately, before Bernard had finished his task, aliens had abducted Bernard and the team of archeologists who discovered the documents. No one heard from any of these people again, and the discovery was forgotten …