Podcasts that mention 📚 The Year 1000 by Valerie Hansen

Then you'll see, there are a lot of global historians now who would say, 'Well, Valerie Hansen wrote a very popular book recently that argues, well, no, actually, a product around the time of the Vikings could theoretically travel from the Americas all the way around the entire world.'

In this segment, Dan Jones discusses historian Valerie Hansen's 'a very popular book,' which presents the argument that a product from the time of the Vikings could theoretically traverse from the Americas to all corners of the globe. This book is mentioned to challenge the notion of how isolated the medieval world was.

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