1434  -  Gavin Menzies

The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance

KORTE INHOUD

Historian Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that in the year 1434, China--then the world's most technologically advanced civilization--provided the spark that set the European Renaissance ablaze. From that date onward, Europeans embraced Chinese intellectual ideas, discoveries, and inventions, all of which form the basis of western civilization today. Florence and Venice of the early fifteenth century were hubs of world trade, attracting traders from across the globe. Based on years of research, th...
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2009 Uitgever: Harper 368 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0007269552 ISBN-13: 9780007269556