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When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the ""Riches of the ""East"" (Reprint Edition) by Stewart Gordon Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-306-81739-X / 030681739X ISBN-13: 978-0-306-81739-7 / 9780306817397 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, |