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1492: The Year the World Began
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I'm shocked by the negative reviews calling this book slow and boring.
This book provides a fascinating overview of the world around the time of Columbus. It puts western Europe in a world context and demonstrates how later dominance of the West was not the inevitable result of divine decree, the white man's burden, but a combination of social political and cultural conditions which caused a shift in world power. All of this painted against a backdrop of the influence of geography and meteorology on ocean travel.
Most interesting to me is how, unbeknownst to people of the day, the world as it was previously known, ended in 1492. This is particularly relevant In the 2020 world of global pandemic and social upheaval.
Can we say that the world which began in 1492 ended in 2020?
This book provides a fascinating overview of the world around the time of Columbus. It puts western Europe in a world context and demonstrates how later dominance of the West was not the inevitable result of divine decree, the white man's burden, but a combination of social political and cultural conditions which caused a shift in world power. All of this painted against a backdrop of the influence of geography and meteorology on ocean travel.
Most interesting to me is how, unbeknownst to people of the day, the world as it was previously known, ended in 1492. This is particularly relevant In the 2020 world of global pandemic and social upheaval.
Can we say that the world which began in 1492 ended in 2020?
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Sep 28, 2023 09:41PM
I’m not sure I can confidently say that the world that began in 1492 ended in 2020 but it seems to have been curtailed quite a bit. A very interesting question Rick.
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