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Description edit
The world would end in 1492—so the prophets, soothsayers, and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. Ours began. In this extraordinary, sweeping history, Felipe FernÁndez-Armesto traces key elements of the modern world back to that single, fateful year. Everything changed... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Chris Tian: Add a description of this character.
- Ivan Iii
- Ferdinand
- Lorenzo
- Isabella
- Charles Viii
- Boabdil
- Casimir
- Mehmet
- Lugo
- Muslim
- Conti
- Yoshimasa
- Tenochtitlan
- Alexander
- Leo
- Askia Muhammad
- Novgorod
- Ali
- Dom Henrique
- Maghrebi
- Stefano
- Shen Zhou
- Tristram
- Mulay Hassan
- Martin Behaim
- Ibn Battuta
- Joachim
- Zosima
- Bayezid
- Cisneros
Setting & Locations edit
- China
- Europe
- Islam
- Spain
- Columbus
- Indian Ocean
- Rome
- Southeast Asia
- Atlantic
- Russia
- Portugal
- Africa
- Naples
- Moscow
- Florence
- Italy
- Japan
- Savonarola
- Muscovy
- France
- Castile
- Timbuktu
- Korea
- Jerusalem
- Cuzco
- Constantinople
- Niger
- Nuremberg
- Sahara
- Ethiopia
- Swahili
- Sahel
- Lithuania
- Canary Islands
- Caribbean
- Sumatra
- Judaism
- England
- Seville
- Sicily
- Egypt
- Aragon
- Arabia
- Venice
- Kongo
- Canaries
- Tenochca
- Germany
- Sri Lanka
First Sentence edit
In 1491, a prophet appeared in Rome in rags, flourishing, as his greatest possession, a wooden cross.
Table of Contents edit
1 “This World Is Small”: Prophecy and Reality in 1492
2 “To Constitute Spain to the Service of God”: The Extinction of Islam in Western Europe
3 “I Can See the Horsemen”: The Strivings of Islam in Africa
4 “No Sight More Pitiable”: The Mediterranean World and the Redistribution of the Sephardim
5 “Is God Angry with Us?”: Culture and Conflict in Italy
6 Toward “the Land of Darkness”: Russia and the Eastern Marches of Christendom
7 “That Sea of Blood”: Columbus and the Transatlantic Link
8 “Among the Singing Willows”: China, Japan, and Korea
9 “The Seas of Milk and Butter”: The Indian Ocean Rim
10 “The Fourth World”: Indigenous Societies in the Atlantic and the Americas
Epilogue: The World We’re In
Notes
Authors & Contributors edit
- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 909.4
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