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I'm John Bachelor with Peter Frankapan of Oxford University Worcester College, a professor of

global history. The new book is The Earth

transformed, looking at climate, ecology, pandemic, volcanoes, all of that and

how humankind, especially the civilizations that reach back the last 5,000 years,

have responded.

Now we come to a debate that is ongoing, whether or not there is a way of explaining why Europe

seems to accelerate in terms of science and technology, over Asia where much of

the innovation of the earlier thousand or two thousand years took place.

I know that having visited Central Asia, the city states of

and Kabul of Samar Khan all of those city states were well established with science and learning and education

thousands of years before that came to Europe, I date European universities remembering 1222

Padua.

That is the period of time when universities in guilds are mixing with what is known as the

feudal revolution and the professor teaches me that that is too shorthand.

There's a lot of complication that went on in the 13th century in Europe,

but in any event Europe is said to accelerate.

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