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
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- English Reformation (1533)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)