The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World―and Globalization Began
by Valerie Hansen
“Around the year 1000, people around the globe started to realize for the first time that they could leave home, travel to other places, find out about their neighbors and adopt new approaches. A wave of Islam came to Northwest China as part of that movement. People embarked on ocean travel, who hadn’t strayed far previously. The Vikings cross from Greenland to what is today Canada. New routes linked the continents together.”
We spoke to Valerie Hansen, Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale, about the best books on the Silk Roads.
Our most recommended books
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Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
by Camilla Townsend -
Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688
by Clare Jackson -
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces
by Laura Tunbridge -
Going to Church in Medieval England
by Nicholas Orme -
The Jews and the Reformation
by Kenneth Austin -
God: An Anatomy
by Francesca Stavrakopoulou
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