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The Shock of the New | The Year 1600: The Birth of the Modern?
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:54:08
Publish Date: 2022-10-31 12:10:00
Description: Empires are exploding, the British East India Company is born, and the silver trade between South America and China begins to stitch the world into a global economy. Shakespeare is writing Hamlet and Julius Caesar, and Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake for his scientific discoveries. Part one in a series about what Salman Rushdie calls “hinge moments” in history, exploring how change happens.
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