Christopher Columbus was a merchant who infamously sailed west from Europe to prove that the Earth was spherical rather than flat, accidentally sailing to (and subsequently colonizing) America along the way. For Harari, Columbus’s infamous voyage marks the start of the European Empire. He thinks the European Empire was different than previous empires because its conquerors saw themselves as scientists who were exploring, discovering, and learning about the world. The rulers of former empires, Harari thinks, saw themselves as spreading established doctrines and creating unity over disparate people and territories.
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Henceforth not only European geographers, but European scholars in almost all other fields of knowledge began to draw maps with spaces left to fill in. They began to admit that their theories were not perfect and that there were important things that they did not know.
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Christopher Columbus Quotes in Sapiens
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Chapter 15
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Henceforth not only European geographers, but European scholars in almost all other fields of knowledge began to draw maps with spaces left to fill in. They began to admit that their theories were not perfect and that there were important things that they did not know.
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