When Asia Was The World

Klappentext Offers a look at Asia from 700 to 1500 AD! a time when Asia was the world! by describing the personal journeys of Asia's many travellers - 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. Zusammenfassung Offers a look at Asia from 700 to 1500 AD! a time when Asia was the world! by describing the personal journeys of Asia's many travellers - 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.

Product details

• Authors: Stewart Gordon, Gordon Stewart
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2007
• EAN: 9780300126365
• ISBN: 978-0-300-12636-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; Asia, HISTORY / Asia / General, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Asian History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE