https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Years_of_Rice_and_Salt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Years_of_Rice_and_Salt > The novel explores how subsequent world his

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Years_of_Rice_and_Salt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Years_of_Rice_and_Salt > The novel explores how subsequent world history might have been different if the Black Death plague had killed 99% of Europe's population, instead of a third. it's an interesting effort to imagine human civilisation guided primarily by buddhism and islam, without christianity ever ascending.