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Slavery also grew in the Islamic world of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, we learn, and in sub-Saharan Africa during the first millennium.

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For two millennia Christians have featured the Romans’ execution of Jesus of Nazareth as a formative part of devotion for children and adults alike.

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These poems from two millennia ago are the “first collection of women’s literature in the world,” writes Charles Hallisey in an introduction to his translation.

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The north appears as a distinct region that was “at the cutting edge of Western science and technology” millennia before it birthed the Industrial Revolution.

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George’s ancestors had lived in this part of the world for millennia and had been the ones to greet the first French trappers who ventured north from Montreal in the 1600s.

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