What Valerie Hansen thinks about America
American historian of China and world history; Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University; author of The Open Empire, The Silk Road: A New History and The Year 1000.
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2 dated positions, 2020, in their own words. Our reading of what Valerie Hansen has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe most credible claim – that the Vikings reached North America around the year 1000 – deserves more attention.
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Their wordsStill, we have to realise that Europeans didn’t invent globalisation. Existing intra-American trade pathways and relationships facilitated the European conquest of the Americas that began in 1492.