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When Asia was the world, traveling merchants, scholars, warriors, and monks who created the "riches of the east", Stewart Gordon

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When Asia was the world, traveling merchants, scholars, warriors, and monks who created the "riches of the east", Stewart Gordon

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eng

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history

Main title

When Asia was the world

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1040680566

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Stewart Gordon

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traveling merchants, scholars, warriors, and monks who created the "riches of the east"

Summary

While European intellectual, cultural, and commercial life stagnated during the early medieval period, Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of religious, commercial, and intellectual connections, the different regions of Asia's vast civilization, from Arabia to China, hummed with commerce, international diplomacy, and the brisk exchange of ideas. Stewart Gordon has fashioned a look at Asia from A.D. 700 to 1500, a time when Asia was the world, by describing the personal journeys of Asia's many travelers--the merchants who traded spices along the Silk Road, the apothecaries who exchanged medicine and knowledge from China to the Middle East, and the philosophers and holy men who crossed continents to explore and exchange ideas, books, science, and culture

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