If like me your formal introduction to world history was less than adequate, you might desire a recap or reconsideration. Before I prepared to live in Turkey, this cartoon pretty well summed up the extent of my knowledge:
A course in “world history” was more likely to be a study of “Western Civilization,” or European history. The “strange” Ottoman Empire…
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