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kanissa's review against another edition
4.0
I am a nerd, so I found this interesting. It's not particularly heavy reading, and instead provides a fun little journey back and forth across much of the world. What I enjoyed most was the relative focus on India and Persia, which are both civilizations I don't know a whole lot about. (Along the same lines, I found the sections on Europe less interesting.) Christensen also devotes some time (although not as much) to China, Japan, and South America.
It's an interesting and ambitious undertaking, to write a brief overview of the world during one particular (and generally considered uneventful) year. It never gets very in-depth or provides a whole lot of analysis, but it's a good introduction that could pique the reader to find more scholarly texts.
It's an interesting and ambitious undertaking, to write a brief overview of the world during one particular (and generally considered uneventful) year. It never gets very in-depth or provides a whole lot of analysis, but it's a good introduction that could pique the reader to find more scholarly texts.
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