Imagine that a traveller journeyed from East to West across the world in the period in and around th

Imagine that a traveller journeyed from East to West across the world in the period in and around the year 1500. As they ventured from Tokugawa Japan and Ming China, through the Islamic empires of the Mughals, Safavids and Ottomans, and eventually arrived in Europe, what impressions might they form about the societies they experienced? How were these societies structured politically and socially? What were their specific strengths and the weaknesses, and what challenges did they face as contacts between parts of the world accelerated? To answer these questions, you must use a minimum of four documents from Envisioning World Civilizations. You are not required to discuss all of the societies that we have looked at so far in the course, but you should include at least one each from East Asia, the Middle East, and Europe in your analysis.