The Twenty-five Years that Changed the World: Our Place in Time Volume II

This trilogy provides an appreciation of the diverse four major civilizations that frame our world today-Confucian China, Hindu India, the Muslim Middle East, and the Christian West-from their first meaningful interaction in 1100. This book, in covering 1400-1700, finds remarkably that the major transformative actions of each touch the years 1501-1526. Following the progress of these civilizations which, with their expansion, represent 85 percent of the world's population is the key to unde...