One of the best history books ever written: The Silk Roads. Sweeps across every culture/empire as it rises/falls, from Ottomans, to Mongols, to Turks, + the Europeans. It shows the great names of history in all their glory + all their horrific brutality.
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Check out After Tamerlane by John Darwin and Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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