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The sea trade network Jiang attributes to Abbasid initiative, bringing China more fully into world exchange.
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Maritime Silk Road
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...it is the Abbasids who would initiate something called the Maritime Silk Road."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...it is the Abbasids who would initiate something called the Maritime Silk Road."
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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."
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"The overland of the Maritime Silk Road is known as the Maritime Silk Road. The overland Silk Road has existed for a long time,..."
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"...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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