HY 104 QL World History I Fall 2021 Dr. John E. Van Sant Book Review Guide for When Asia Was the World, by Stewart Gordon Due Date: No later than December 3 (Friday), by 5:00pm. Be sure to download...

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Title: HY 104 QL World History I
Contents
Overview of the Book    3
Intan Shipwreck    3
Ibn Sina, A
aham bin Yiju, Ma Huan    4
Tome Pires    6
Conclusion    7
Works Cited    8
Overview of the Book
The author of the book “When Asia Was the World” is Stewart Gordon who is senior researcher at the University of Michigan. He actively writes about Asia and World history on his blog and has written three books on Asia. The author elaborates the experience of travellers, who travelled to Asia between 500 and 1500 CE and came in contact with diverse people.
During this time, Asia was considered as world and flourished as an attractive destination for religious, philosophical, commercial and international civilization (Ka
ar). The different travellers, who encountered several cultural discoveries and explored different business models and the trade routes, shared their documented stories.
Intan Shipwreck
All of Gordon's travels were traversing the great plains of Eurasia by land, but not all of them. He spends a significant amount of time at sea, and his section on the millennium Intan shipwrecks off the coast of Java Island is among the most intriguing in this segment. Nobody really remembers what caused the sinking of this material South Asia ship.
The ship was not far from the coast when this sunk in a storm despite the fact that it was in an area devoid of rocks and hazards (Asis et al.). The objects found on Intan's shipwreck, on the other hand, demonstrate how disparate locations in this mediaeval Asiatic globe might be linked together by a common shipment.
Gold was discovered in a deposit, and it is thought to have originated in Asian Countries. Silk was sourced from southern China, while silver, mi
ors, and ceramics were all sourced from a variety of locations. Buddha artefacts from India are buried in the dirt, while other ceramic and glass objects are sourced from the Middle East (Verghese et al.). Ships and cargo, yes, but there were a variety of sources, from which these products originated.
Ibn Sina, A
aham bin Yiju, Ma Huan
People like A
aham bin Iju, Ibn Battuta, and Ma Huang were mentioned in Gordon's speech, as were traders who dealt throughout the Indian Subcontinent, shopped via Persia, and traded through eastern Russia to influence the economic expansion of the dynasty. They have created a large number of affluent rulers and hundreds of millions of some well citizens as an outcome of travel and natural assets such as cinnamon (Bultmann).
Asia did not choose to compete with anybody, though as a result, it rose to become the world's most profitable area (Lim et al.). However, following this time, the further the country gets to the Mongol Empire era, then the more nations starts to deteriorate since violence, rather than money, is the...