In her book How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History, Josephine Quinn examines 4,000 years of the history of the Euro-Afro-Asiatic region, beginning in the Levant in the 20th century BC and ending with Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas in the 15th century AD. Professor of Ancient History at Oxford University, Quinn is a renowned historian who has written other award-winning works such as In Search of the Phoenicians (2017).