A whistle-stop tour around the world in AD 1500
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A History of the World in 12 Maps by Jerry Brotton
If you had a time machine set to 1500, where would you choose to go? What would you want to witness? If I could go back, I would go to what is narrow-standable, Constantinople in 1500. It seems to me it's very much at the centre of what's happening globally. You're even getting the impact of American trade that's dimly being perceived in this time.
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