Table of Contents

1 "This World Is Small": Prophecy and Reality in 1492 1

2 "To Constitute Spain to the Service of God": The Extinction of Islam in Western Europe 27

3 "I Can See the Horsemen": The Strivings of Islam in Africa 55

4 "No Sight More Pitiable": The Mediterranean World and the Redistribution of the Sephardim 87

5 "Is God Angry with Us"": Culture and Conflict in Italy 115

6 Toward "the Land of Darkness": Russia and the Eastern Marches of Christendom 147

7 "That Sea of Blood": Columbus and the Transatlantic Link 177

8 "Among the Singing Willows": China, Japan, and Korea 205

9 "The Seas of Milk and Butter": The Indian Ocean Rim 241

10 "The Fourth World": Indigenous Societies in the Atlantic and the Americas 273

Epilogue: The World We're In 311

Notes 323

Provenance of Illustrations 337

Index 339