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306: Columbus: The Adventure Begins (Part 1)
The Rest Is History
The Genoese Dimension in the Bubonic Play
Genoa is this, it's at the center of this huge network of trade and production and entrepreneurship. They're about 50 or so big families that trade all over, not just the Mediterranean, actually. It's a body catapulted into the Genoese outpost in Crimea that is said to have initiated the Black Death. So that's along those networks that the bubonic play travels a century or two before Columbus is born.
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