The internet certainly has made our world more interconnected. But to trace the first instances of people connecting the dots worldwide, you’ve got to go back a millennium. Yale historian Valerie Hansen joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the long, winding path to this modern life. Her book is “The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began.”
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