ASNS2627 Lecture 2: WK2 Maritime environments and their hinterlands
23 Dec 2018
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By the first century the silk road of the sea had reached its maximum linking the persian gulf and the red sea to china. The second ancient book about trade in the indian ocean guide to geography written around ad 150. His work remained the most detailed book on world geography for over a thousand years. Arabs of the abbasid period knew about and used the book. These two texts show that commercial practises had already become standardised along the silk road of the sea by the time of the roman empire. The route is detected by bronze dongson made in vietnam found as far east as papua new guinea: artifacts in sahuynh style found in vietnam provides evidence of the ancestral culture of people known as cham. The ban on trade, meant they could not legitimately purchase rare and precious objects from southern lands.
