Hansen’s deeply engrossing work of scholarship builds a foundation for understanding our current iteration of globalization. Natural resources were not the only commodities to be traded, religion was also disseminated widely in the new areas during this time. While nautical prowess was a key, many empires acquired footholds through land invasion as in the case of the Mongols.

She acknowledges the origins of the human slave trade as territories amassed wealth and militias. Hansen traces the significance of Asian and Islamic empires and their trade in spices, knowledge, and precious metals. She veers into the history of the Mayans, including the settlement of Chichén Itzá, and their accomplishments in architecture and agriculture.

An examination of when the different regions of the world were much more connected than most people. Hansen begins with the Vikings, and their voyages in search of a new world. The World in the Year 1000: When Globalization Began. For readers of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens, The Year 1000 is a 'fascinating.highly impressive, deeply researched, lively and imaginative work' (The New York Times Book Review) that will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about how the modern world came to be.The year 1000 marks a transformative time and the start of globalization, according to renowned historian, Hansen ( The Silk Road, 2012) in this meticulous portrayal of the explorers, traders, and rulers who built a complex network which linked a disparate world. Drawing on nearly thirty years of research, she presents a compelling account of first encounters between disparate societies, which sparked conflict and collaboration eerily reminiscent of our contemporary moment. But how, then, to explain the presence of blond-haired people in Maya temple murals at Chich n Itz, Mexico? Could it be possible that the Vikings had found their way to the Americas during the height of the Maya empire? Valerie Hansen, an award-winning historian, argues that the year 1000 was the world's first point of major cultural exchange and exploration. *A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a 'vivid' and 'astonishingly comprehensive account that] casts world history in a brilliant new light' (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and shows how bold explorations and daring trade missions first connected all of the world's societies at the end of the first millennium.People often believe that the years immediately prior to AD 1000 were, with just a few exceptions, lacking in any major cultural developments or geopolitical encounters, that the Europeans hadn't yet reached North America, and that the farthest feat of sea travel was the Vikings' invasion of Britain.

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