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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Vintage)
Charles C. Mann
Alfred A. Knopf, 2011

Before Columbus landed on Hispaniola, China was the most technologically advanced country in the world. Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City) was larger and cleaner than any Spanish city. There were empires and pig iron in Africa, and empires across the ( Read more... )

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