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What if the world were flat and Columbus had fallen off the edge of the earth
13 mins | Nov 18, 2017
What would world history look like if Columbus and other sea-faring Europeans never reached the Americas? Greg Rosalsky, writing in JSTOR Daily, revisits the economist Preston McAfee’s remarkable modelling experiment.
