The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World Subclass_Islamic General & Miscellaneous Surviving the first four waves

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The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World Subclass_Islamic General & Miscellaneous Surviving the first four wavesWhen did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it was the year 1000, when for the first time new trade routes linked the entire globe, so an object could in theory circumnavigate the world. This was the 'big bang' of globalization, which ushered in a new era of exploration and trade, and which paved the way for Europeans to dominate after