![]() In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the Malayo-Polynesians were branching out to in three directions to New Zealand, Hawaii, and Easter Island.įrom Europe, Norse voyagers from Greenland had reached the New World, some 500 years before Columbus. Chinese merchants were sailing through the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea to Basra in what is now Iraq and from there often along the east coast of Africa, a journey of up to 14,000 miles. One thousand years ago, people were on the move. Valerie, a longtime Branford resident, is Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale where she teaches both Chinese and world history. Who were they and just how far could they go? That is the subject of Valerie Hansen’s new book, The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World and Globalization Began. One thousand years ago, adventurous people could do something that has become increasingly difficult in the age of COVID: They could travel, and travel far. Valerie Hansen, who teaches both Chinese and world history at Yale, has recently published a new book, The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World and Globalization Began. ![]()
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