"This world is small" : prophecy and reality in 1492 -- "To constitute Spain to the service of God" : the extinction of Islam in Western Europe -- "I can see the horsemen" : the strivings of Islam in Africa -- "No sight more pitiable" : the Mediterranean world and the redistribution of the Sephardim -- "Is God angry with us?" : culture and conflict in Italy -- Toward "the land of darkness" : Russia and the eastern marches of Christendom -- "That sea of blood" : Columbus and the transatlantic link -- "Among the singing willows" : China, Japan, and Korea -- "The seas of milk and butter" : the Indian Ocean rim -- "The fourth world" : indigenous societies in the Atlantic and the Americas -- The world we're in.