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From the writer of 1491 - the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas - a deeply interesting new history that explores the most momentous natural event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years back, geological forces break up apart the continents. Isolated from one another, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plant life and pets. Columbus's voyages brought them back mutually - and marked the start of a fantastic exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas. As Charles Mann shows, this global ecological tumult - the "Columbian Exchange" - underlies a lot of subsequent history. Showing the latest technology of research by experts, Mann shows the way the creation of this worldwide network of exchange fostered the climb of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for just two hundreds of years made Manila and Mexico City - where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted - the guts of the world. In 1493, Charles Mann offers us an eye-opening medical interpretation of our own former, unequaled in its specialist and fascination.
