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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://beloit.worldcat.org/oclc/148913992 Title: When Asia was the world Author: Stewart Gordon Publisher: [Cambridge, Mass.] : Da Capo Press, 2009. ©2008 ISBN/ISSN: 9780306815560 0306815567 9780306817397 030681739X OCLC:148913992

  
  

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When Asia was the world

Author:	Stewart Gordon
Publisher:	[Cambridge, Mass.] : Da Capo Press, 2009. ©2008
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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"--Publisher description.  Read more...