A History of the World in Numbers

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How many elephants crossed the Alps with the Carthaginian generál, Hannibal?
What was the largest city in the world in 1420?
How many workers did ít take to build the
Great Wall of China?
How many people were sacrificed by the Aztecs?
Covering over 100 centuries of history across the gtobe, from 8000 BCE to the twenty-first century, A History of the World in Numbers links the past and the present through the extraordinary world of numbers
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The history of our world can be told through numbers.
Large numbers teli us how many people are living on our planet or how many millions are massacred in war. They can illuminate the broad sweep of history, from vast movements of populations and the expansion of empires to the effects of technological achievements or climatic change.
Smaller numbers, however, are just as revealing as they allow us to drill into the real detail of history, from the page count and the time it took to produce... Tovább

Fülszöveg

How many elephants crossed the Alps with the Carthaginian generál, Hannibal?
What was the largest city in the world in 1420?
How many workers did ít take to build the
Great Wall of China?
How many people were sacrificed by the Aztecs?
Covering over 100 centuries of history across the gtobe, from 8000 BCE to the twenty-first century, A History of the World in Numbers links the past and the present through the extraordinary world of numbers
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X'U
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The history of our world can be told through numbers.
Large numbers teli us how many people are living on our planet or how many millions are massacred in war. They can illuminate the broad sweep of history, from vast movements of populations and the expansion of empires to the effects of technological achievements or climatic change.
Smaller numbers, however, are just as revealing as they allow us to drill into the real detail of history, from the page count and the time it took to produce the exquisite Gutenberg Bible (the West's first mass-produced book), to the profit to be made on Virginián tobacco in the 1620s, both of which had an immediate and lasting effect on the course of world history.
And just occasionally, numbers have the power to blow our minds: in 2003, US research showed that one in every 200 men living on the planet today share genetic material with a single male from around 900 years ago; the likely progenitor was Mongol emperor, Genghis Khan.
Spanning the early civilization of man, from the plains of Mesopotamia and the Indus Empire through to the end of the Second World War, A History of the World in Numbers zooms back and forth through time to highlight the astonishing and peculiar nature of history. Vissza