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Pilgrims Carried Ideas Further Than Armies Ever Could Religious expansion and intellectual exchange across the civilizations of the Silk Roads
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Altersempfehlung
1 - 99 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
05.06.2026
Verlag
EpubliSeitenzahl
192
Maße (L/B/H)
29,7/21/1,2 cm
Gewicht
593 g
Auflage
1
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-565-47805-7
The Silk Roads transmitted far more than merchandise. Across caravan routes, ports, and imperial capitals traveled religions, scientific ideas, languages, and philosophical traditions that reshaped civilizations from East Asia to the Mediterranean.
This account explores the Silk Roads as channels of cultural and intellectual exchange. Buddhism spread from India into Central and East Asia, Christianity reached eastern communities through Nestorian networks, and Islam expanded alongside merchants and political power across interconnected Eurasian societies. Faith moved through trade as naturally as commodities themselves.
The book also examines the circulation of astronomy, mathematics, medicine, and philosophy across linguistic and imperial boundaries. Scholars translated texts, adapted foreign knowledge, and integrated scientific traditions into new cultural settings. Intellectual history became inseparable from commercial mobility and diplomatic contact.
The Silk Roads emerge here as a vast system of transmission through which civilizations continuously reshaped one another across centuries of contact and exchange.
This account explores the Silk Roads as channels of cultural and intellectual exchange. Buddhism spread from India into Central and East Asia, Christianity reached eastern communities through Nestorian networks, and Islam expanded alongside merchants and political power across interconnected Eurasian societies. Faith moved through trade as naturally as commodities themselves.
The book also examines the circulation of astronomy, mathematics, medicine, and philosophy across linguistic and imperial boundaries. Scholars translated texts, adapted foreign knowledge, and integrated scientific traditions into new cultural settings. Intellectual history became inseparable from commercial mobility and diplomatic contact.
The Silk Roads emerge here as a vast system of transmission through which civilizations continuously reshaped one another across centuries of contact and exchange.
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