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John Hemming • The Conquest of the Incas
The Portuguese were a network, held together by religion and language, and with better sources of market information in long-distance trades than their purely Asian counterparts.11 Portuguese became the lingua franca of maritime Asia. The very marginality of the Portuguese as an alien maritime subculture helped to make them acceptable to government
... See moreJohn Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Or was it? There was a serpent in the hunter-gatherer
Matt Ridley • The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)
