1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Mann, 2011)
1492 · Resource
Mann's follow-up traces how the Columbian Exchange globalised plants, animals, and microbes — reshaping every continent's ecology and economy.
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Around 1492
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- The Reformation (1517)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)