Trade, Culture, and Civilizational Interactions: Material and Non-material Cultural Exchange in the Maritime Silk Route
摘要
The vibrant trans-oceanic cultural exchange witnessed by the regions linked by the Medieval Maritime Silk Route was driven by the active motor of the brisk commercial, exchange along those regions. The regions which formed the chief theatre where this enormous ferment of cultural cross pollination played out were, in the main, the Indian Subcontinent, the part of the Eurasian landmass known as South East Asia, and the Near East, especially the Arab lands, Persia, and the Mediterranean.