When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the ""riches of the ""east"" by Stewart Gordon

When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the ""riches of the ""east""

Stewart Gordon

256 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous challenging informative medium-paced
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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 c...

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