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Chapter 25: The Viking Conquests of Europe — World History 101

Why displaced Scandinavian soldiers spent three centuries raiding and trading from Constantinople to North America — and why the standard ‘they loved to fight’ explanation gets the economics wrong.
Chapter 30: The Mystery of Great Zimbabwe — World History 101

How a sub-Saharan African city of 18,000 people mined and traded 40 percent of the world’s gold supply for three centuries — and how European archaeologists spent decades refusing to admit it had been built by Africans.