So, the stage is set for a Europe ruled by Incas and for a great war that will change history forever. Summary: An ambitious and highly entertaining novel of revisionist history by Laurent Binet, the author of the international bestseller HHhH. Pour y trouver quoi L’Inquisition espagnole, la Réforme de Luther, le capitalisme naissant. Fortunately, he has a recent guidebook to acquiring power-Machiavelli's The Prince. Civilizations est le roman de cette hypothèse : Atahualpa débarque dans l’Europe de Charles Quint. But most of all, downtrodden populations ready for revolution. What does he find? The Spanish Inquisition, the Reformation, capitalism, the miracle of the printing press, endless warmongering between the ruling monarchies, and constant threat from the Turks. The earliest civilizations developed between 40 B.C.E., when the rise of agriculture and trade allowed people to have surplus food and economic stability. Thirty-nine years after that, Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, arrives in Europe. Civilization describes a complex way of life that came about as people began to develop networks of urban settlements. h h h h LLLLLLLLh hhhhh LLL L h h LLLLLhhh L.

General approach: interactive multi-nets, networks among and. Even after he is captured by the Taínos, his faith in his superiority and his mission is unshaken. Outline re: civilizations as dynamic networks. Five hundred years later, Christopher Columbus is sailing for the Americas, dreaming of gold and conquest. 1000 CE: Erik the Red's daughter heads south from Greenlandġ531: The Incas invade Europe Freydis is the leader of a band of Viking warriors who get as far as Panama. It is an electrifying novel by one of Europe's most exciting writers.

An ambitious and highly entertaining novel of revisionist history from the author of the international bestseller HHhH, Laurent Binet's Civilizations is nothing less than a strangely believable counterfactual history of the modern world, fizzing with ideas about colonization, empire building, and the eternal human quest for domination.

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