Salt: A World History (Kurlansky, 2002)
1500 · Resource
Mark Kurlansky traces civilisation through its hunger for a single mineral that built and broke economies.
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Around 1500
- The Reformation (1517)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Reign of Henry VIII (1509)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508)