Powers and Thrones
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What’s it about?
A sweeping history of the medieval world, revealing how empires, faith, war, and commerce forged the modern era through the ambitions and struggles of people.
You’ll learn
- Power took many forms: empire, church, sword, commerce, ideas
- The medieval world was dynamic, not stagnant
- Islam and Byzantium were more advanced than Europe
- Crisis and plague paved the way for modernity