When Asia Was the World : Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the ""Riches of the ""East""
Professor Emeritus Stewart Gordon
Da Capo Press
9780306817397
0-306-81739-X
While European civilization stagnated in the "Dark Ages," Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of spiritual, commercial, and intellectual connections,.
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the distant regions of Asia's vast civilization, from Arabia to China, hummed with trade, international diplomacy, and the exchange of ideas. Stewart Gordon has fashioned a compelling and unique look at Asia from AD 700 to 1500-a time when Asia was the world-by relating the personal journeys of Asia's many travelers.
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