HISTORY
Epic accounts of the rise and fall of empires, and the invisible threads that forged the destiny of nations.
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Castrated As A Child, He Reached Africa Leading A Fleet Before Columbus — Zheng He
The thesis: more than seventy years before Columbus set sail for America, a man captured and castrated as a child as the spoils of war led a fleet of dozens of great ships and thousands of men to the coasts of Africa;
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LA MALINCHE: THE SLAVE WHO BECAME THE VOICE THAT TOPPLED AN EMPIRE
The thesis: the most cursed woman in Mexican memory (her name is a synonym for betrayal, 'malinchismo') was also the only person on the continent able to build a linguistic bridge between two civilizations that shared not a single word.
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The Butcher Who Built The First Globalization — Genghis Khan
The thesis: the man responsible for the greatest proportional massacre of a population in human history is also the unwitting architect of the first network of trade, religious tolerance and secure mail on a continental scale the world had ever known.
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