Edmund Burke once said "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." But how do we "know" history and avoid the "danger of a single story" as Chimamanda Adichie warns? By investigating how historical texts and literature portray globalization in the 16th Century, you will become a critical consumer of history and how our knowledge of the past is shaped. In the process, you will discover answers to the following questions: 

 

• How do writers tell stories about people living in other times and places than their own? 

• How does fiction affect our view of 16th Century globalization?