1. Introduction: An Experiment in Learning - and Teaching - Early Global Literatures and Cultures; 2. Why Teach Early Global Literatures and Cultures?; 3. Organizing a Course, and a Scaffold of Questions in Search of Answers; 4. What Should We Teach? Two Dozen Texts from Which to Extract a Possible Syllabus; 5. What Interconnects the Early World of AfroEurasia? What Does that Early World Look like? Teaching The Vinland Sagas, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali, and Ibn Fadlan's Mission to the Volga as Global Texts; 6. Encountering the Other, or Slaves, Race, Religion, Gender, and Sexuality in a World of Differences: Teaching 'The Slave of MS. H.6,' selected documents from India Traders of the Middle Ages, Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale, and Kamaluddin Abdul-Razzaq Samarqandi's Mission to Calicut and Vijayanagar; 7. Oceans of Stories, and Island Worlds: Teaching Buzurg ibn Shahriyar's Book of the Wonders of India, and Abu Zayd Al-Sirafi's Accounts of India and China, with the Malay Annals; 8. The Globalism of Pax Mongolica: Teaching the Secret History of the Mongols and Marco Polo-Rustichello of Pisa's Description of the World; 9. The Role/s of Students in the Early Global Literature Classroom: Taking Ownership of the Course, Research, and Team Projects.