![]() ![]() They changed and augmented what had been there since 1000. For the first time in world history an object or a message could travel all the way around the world. ![]() In this Quantitative History Webinar, Valerie Hansen will take us back to the year 1000 and discuss how globalization began. Stretching some 8000 miles long, it was nearly twice as long as the distance Columbus covered (4400 miles) when he crossed the Atlantic. The shipping route from the port of Basra in the Middle East to Guangzhou, China via India and Southeast Asia was the longest maritime pathway in regular use before 1492. The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World―and Globalization Began, written by Yale historian Valerie Hansen, tells the story of the most surprising journeys around the year 1000 took place when speakers of Malayic languages departed from the Malay peninsula and arrived on the island of Madagascar off the east coast of Africa some 4000 miles away. ![]() Trade goods, people, and ideas moved along these newly discovered routes. Given online by the Asia Global Institute on February 25, 2021Ībstract: A new system of global pathways formed in the year 1000 AD following the Vikings’ arrival in northeastern Canada. The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began ![]()
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