When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the "Riches of the East"
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Description
Stewart Gordon uses the narratives of nine travelers to tell the story of Asia’s diverse economy and cultures between 500 and 1500 CE. During those thousand years, the world’s largest continent was the hub of global cultural and economic activity. Throughout Asia, and even to points elsewhere in the Eastern Hemisphere, goods and ideas moved along far-reaching trade routes traveled by religious figures, diplomats, merchants, mariners, and warriors. The travel narratives collected in When Asia Was the World portray the Asia first encountered by European explorers as a vibrant, ongoing enterprise, from which they both learned and profited.
ISBN
9780306815560
Publication Date
2008
Publisher
Da Capo Press
City
Cambridge, MA
Document Type
Book
Keywords
Muslim Journeys, Travelers, Asia, Economy, Culture, Trade routes, Travel narratives
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Religion
Recommended Citation
Gordon, Stewart, "When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the "Riches of the East"" (2008). Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys. 10.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/muslim-journeys-books/10
