[PDF.66op] When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the ""Riches of the ""East""

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

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 | #159505 in Books |  Gordon, Stewart |  2009-01-06 |  2009-01-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.25 x.75 x5.50l,.55 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

 | Da Capo Press

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| It's a pretty shallow look at each area|By gobberpooper|It's a pretty shallow look at each area, as you might expect, but the range of eras and kingdoms it covers is really good. Most books on Asia cover only Iran, China, or northern India. Did you know that the most populous city in the world (it would equate to a city 5 times as large as Shanghai today) was Angkor, the capita|From Publishers Weekly|Gordon, a Senior Research Scholar at the University of Michigan, recalls Thomas Cahill's "Hinges of History" series in this accessible history-in-portraits. Covering "the thousand years from 500 to 1500, when Asia was an astonishing, conne