1492
The Year the Four Corners of the Earth Collided
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2.7 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A study of events of 1492 and how they affect the global community of the world of today.
The world would end in 1492—so the prophets, soothsayers and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. But ours began.
In search of the origins of the modern world, 1492 takes readers on a journey around the globe of the time, in the company of real-life travellers, drawing together the threads that began to bind the planet: from the way power and wealth are distributed around the globe to the way major religions and civilizations divide the world. Events that began in 1492 even transformed the whole ecological system of the planet. Wars and witchcraft, plagues and persecutions, poetry and prophecy, science and magic, art and faith—all the glories and follies of the time are in this book.
Customer Reviews
Provocative if on occasion tedious…
Thoughtful conceptual overview and new insights into civilizations of the 1300-1400’s in the 4 corners of the world of 1494. But too detailed on obscure pieces, places and people. Often seems a rambling tour through out of the way geographies. The epilogue is perhaps the best part of the book - bit arduous to get there.
Too long
Could have been more concise.