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

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 to a time when Asia was the worldby relating the personal journeys of Asias many travelers