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Get the Summary of Valerie Hansen's The Year 1000 in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Year 1000" by Valerie Hansen provides a comprehensive examination of global population growth and economic development around the year 1000. The book highlights the surge in agricultural productivity that led to population booms in various regions, including China under the Song dynasty, the Islamic heartland, Western Europe,...
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"In history, myth often abides. It was long assumed that the centuries immediately prior to AD 1000 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 people in Mayan temple murals in Chichen Itza, Mexico? Could it be possible that...
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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...
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