Tides of History | 11 June 2020 | 0h 36m | Listen Later 
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Interview with Valerie Hansen about her book The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began. Discusses how, from around the year 1000, merchants, explorers, and missionaries first linked the world together from Newfoundland to China. Trade goods, people, and above all ideas flowed across a rich assortment of routes, connecting previously distant places into a single unit.