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When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the "Riches of the 'East'"

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Title: When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the "Riches of the 'East'"

Author: Stewart Gordon

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published Date: January 6, 2009

Pages: 256 pages

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780306817397

Condition: New

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 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.