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What If...?

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A special edition asking
"What if Columbus hadn't reached the New World?"
How would the native populations in America have developed without horses or wheels? How would Europe have fared without potatoes, tobacco or maize? Would the scourge of racism have been avoided with no large-scale slave trade?
Dr Christopher Andrew is joined by a distinguished group of American scholars to rewrite world history over the last 500 years. Producer Ian Bell

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Dr Christopher Andrew
Producer:
Ian Bell
Source: Radio Times

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