Introducing players from Europe, the Islamic world, Asia, the Indian Ocean maritime world, the Pacific and the Mayan world who were connecting the major landmasses for the first time, this compelling revisionist argument shows how these encounters set the stage for the globalization that would dominate the world for centuries to come. 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 Columbus reached America.ĭrawing on a wide range of new historical sources and cutting-edge archaeology, Hansen shows, for example, that the Maya began to trade with the native peoples of modern New Mexico from traces of theobromine - the chemical signature of chocolate - and that frozen textiles found in Greenland contain hairs from animals that could only have come from North America. She moves with grace from civilization to civilization and from telling granular detail to offering an evocative overview, all in lively, engaging prose. 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. Full Book Name:The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World and Globalization Began Author Name:Valerie Hansen Book Genre:History, Nonfiction, Travel ISBN B07YD2Y6P6 Edition Language: Date of Publication: PDF / EPUB File Name:TheYear1000-ValerieHansen. Hansen, who also wrote the compelling The Silk Road: A New History, details how globalization began more than 1,000 years ago.

When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America.

The Year 1000 by Valerie Hansen