The sea trade network Jiang attributes to Abbasid initiative, bringing China more fully into world exchange.
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Maritime Silk Road
The sea trade network Jiang attributes to Abbasid initiative, bringing China more fully into world exchange.
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Jiang argues that the Abbasid Caliphate made existing trade routes richer, denser, and faster, creating a form of globalization long before modern globalization.
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"...it is the Abbasids who would initiate something called the Maritime Silk Road."
"The overland of the Maritime Silk Road is known as the Maritime Silk Road. The overland Silk Road has existed for a long time,..."
"...into Europe, and even into parts of Africa. There's the Maritime Silk Road that they create because they want the porcelain from China. They..."
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