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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Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best Loved Institution
by Andrew Seaton -
Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
by Jonny Steinberg -
Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022
by Frank Trentmann -
Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
by Joya Chatterji -
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
by Nandini Das -
Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
by Nicholas Radburn
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