Duration: 1 online resource (streaming video file (31 minutes))
Summary
Without intending to, Christopher Columbus's search for Asia initiated an event that has been called the most important historical turning point of modern times. Investigate how Columbus's encounter with the Americas brought distant peoples together politically, culturally, and environmentally in ways that were simultaneously productive and deeply destructive
Analysis
European/Baltic Studies
History - Military
History - Modern
Notes
Title from title frames
In Process Record
Performer
Features: University of Pennsylvania, Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius Ph.D
Event
Originally produced by The Teaching Company/The Great Courses in 2013
Notes
In English, with optional closed-captioned English subtitles