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>The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
>The author makes their main idea "The real engine of world history lies between the eastern Mediterranean and the Himalayas." Europe and East Asia are important but peripheral, and goods, religions and innovations traversing Eurasia is the main sweep of world history. A short and general global survey book, more useful for recalibrating your perspective for world events rather than carefully covering any one event. Even western dominance from the early modern era is (rightly) framed in how it arose by challenging the traditional economic arteries of Eurasia.
>The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
>The author makes their main idea "The real engine of world history lies between the eastern Mediterranean and the Himalayas." Europe and East Asia are important but peripheral, and goods, religions and innovations traversing Eurasia is the main sweep of world history. A short and general global survey book, more useful for recalibrating your perspective for world events rather than carefully covering any one event. Even western dominance from the early modern era is (rightly) framed in how it arose by challenging the traditional economic arteries of Eurasia.
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