When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the Riches of the East (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for When Asia Was the World How Asia's great civilization spread when its traveling merchants, scholars, and holy men brought their shining civilization to Europe's Dark Ages
Full description- Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc
- Published: 05 February 2009
- Format: Paperback 256 pages
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- Categories: Asian History | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Early History: C 500 To C 1450/1500 | Medieval History
- ISBN 13: 9780306817397 ISBN 10: 030681739X
- Sales rank: 398,581
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Full description for When Asia Was the World
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, the distant regions of Asias 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 Asias many travelers.
