Meanwhile
What was happening at the same time somewhere else. History is told region by region — one class on Europe, another on Asia — and that leaves the impression that they happened in different eras. Tenochtitlan was founded twenty-two years before the plague reached Europe, and Zheng He's fleet sailed half a century before Constantinople fell.
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What was happening at the same time?
- Papermaking is documented in China
- Sundiata founds the empire of Mali
- Napoleon loses at Waterloo
- The last emperor of Rome is deposed
Why Napoleon loses at Waterloo, 1815. 11 years apart. They are taught in different classes because they happened in different places, but they are the same period. A hundred days after returning from exile. The map the victors drew in Vienna held for almost a century without a general war in Europe.