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Globalization really started 1,000 years ago

  • Written by Valerie Hansen, Professor of History, Yale University
image'The Meeting of Two Worlds,' a sculpture at L'Anse aux Meadows, commemorates the meeting of Vikings and Native Americans around the year 1000.D. Gordon E. Robertson/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Viking ships touched down on the Canadian island of Newfoundland around the year 1000, at what is now the archaeological site known as L'Anse aux Meadows.

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