Название: When Asia Was the World
Автор: Stewart Gordon
Издательство: Da Capo Press
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf, djvu
Страниц: 237
Размер: 10,04 Мб
Язык: английский

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 civilization, from Arabia to China, hummed with trade, international diplomacy, and the exchange of ideas...