The Romans saw the Vikings are barbarians and were eager to make them Christian, for they beleived their truth was the universal truth. They were not interested in learning from lesser people. For Romans, the others had to be subjugated. They were resources and rivals, to be enslaved, and brought into the Roman fold. In time, the Vikings lands of Scandinavia would give rise to the Dutch who would change the world forever by inventing the stock market, a financial revolution that provided vast amounts of credit to the newly emerging industrial economy.
‘A fact that confounds me now when I think back on it,’ writes the acclaimed Indian author Amitav Ghosh at the start of this expansive and thoughtful book, ‘is that for most of my life China was for me a vast, uniform blankness.’ There were many reasons for this, he says. The war between India
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