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THE YEAR 1000 - VALERIE HANSEN KARTONIERT (TB)

From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen  a groundbreaking work of history showing that
bold explorations and daring trade missions connected all of the world's great civilizations
for the first time at the end of the first millennium. In history  myth often abides. It was
long assumed that the centuries immediately prior to 1000 AD were lacking in any major cultural
developments or geopolitical encounters  that the Europeans hadn't yet discovered North America
that the farthest anyone had traveled over sea was the Vikings' invasion of Britain. But how 
then  to explain the presence of blonde-haired  blue-eyed people in Mayan temple murals in
Chichen Itza  Mexico? Could it be possible that the Vikings had found their way to the Americas
during the height of the Mayan empire? Valerie Hansen  a much honored historian  argues that
the year 1000 was the world's first point of major cultural exchange and exploration. Drawing
on nearly thirty years of research on medieval China and global history  she presents a
compelling account of first encounters between disparate societies. As civilizations on at
least five continents ventured outward  they spread technology  agriculture  and religion.
These encounters  she shows  made it possible for Christopher Columbus to reach the New World
in 1492  and set the stage for the process of globalization that so dominates the modern era.
For readers of Jared Diamond's Guns  Germs  and Steel and Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens  The Year
1000 is an intellectually daring  provocative account that will make you rethink everything you
thought you knew about how the modern world came to be. It will also hold up a mirror to the
hopes and fears we experience today.

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