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Millennium retrospective - Mobility
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Our ancestors stayed put. We scurry around-but not for fun
A FEW centuries before our millennium began, the last remaining sizeable bit of uninhabited land fit to live in received its first humans. It had taken perhaps 200,000 years for the race t… more »
Millennium retrospective - God
WHEN your friends start looking for proofs of your existence, you’re heading for trouble. That was God’s situation as the millennium got into its stride.
Few ordinary folk, though they had different names for him, doubted the reality of Go… more »
Millennium retrospective - 1184 - To Mecca
ALL through the millennium, Muslims have made the Haj pilgrimage. Abu al-Husayn ibn Jubayr went to Mecca from Spain in 1184. Much that he recorded was as it is today:
Pilgrims were arriving from various countries, so many that only God could count the… more »
Millennium retrospective - 1556-1605 - Multicultural Akbar
INDIA has always been a spiritual rainforest, teeming with religions and their mutations. Fittingly, its greatest rulers have been as notable for their spiritual experiments as for their political ones. Ashoka, who ruled the Mauryan empire, India’s… more »
Millennium retrospective - 1519 - The Conquistadores
There were great empires before the Europeans arrived
LED by four horsemen in full armour, the small column of Spanish infantry, arquebusiers and crossbowmen, with their leader, Hernan Cortes, and further horsemen in the rear, marched along the na… more »
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