Premodern Trade in World History - Richard L. Smith

East of the Malabar coast and north of Ceylon was the Coromandel coast. Roman Empire ships brought back goods from here, the mos ...

To the southeast of Ganges was Chryse. Beyond that, sailing northeast, according to the Periplus, “where the sea ends somewhere ...

Chapter 10 The all-water route The gifts of the self-appointed emissaries from Andun that were so cavalierly rejected by the cou ...

Serica. India Beyond the Ganges extended from the Bay of Bengal to the Magnus Sinus (“Great Bay”), which must refer to the regio ...

far back into the past was the importance of women in trade. In later periods Chinese and Arab observers noted this with surpris ...

was more important than that with China. The motive for such contact usually given in Indian texts is commercial gain: the India ...

far northeastern Indonesia includes banded agate beads and black beads etched in white, reflecting a style that originated with ...

sailors who had to lay over sometimes up tofive months waiting for the monsoons to shift. Chinese reports on Funan began with th ...

and with regard to one particular Malay port, notes“East and West meet together so that every day great crowds gather there. Pre ...

neutral Funan, after which the Indians sent an ambassador to China although Chinese records do not mention this. Notable quantit ...

Officials were said to have normally extorted from merchants between 20 and 30 percent of goods passing through. During thefirst ...

the Sumatran forests. Sumatra also became known for its pepper, as did Java, where a new variety with a distinct taste somewhat ...

alliance with a major rice-producing state in Java, dominated long-distance trade in Southeast Asia for the next seven centuries ...

Chapter 11 From the Jade Road to the Silk Road Of the great civilizations that spanned the agricultural underbelly of Eurasia, C ...

Royal burials for the Shang (c. 1600– 1050 BCE), the earliest Chinese dynasty for which there is archaeological evidence, contai ...

days. When they departed they left their packs, which were then retrieved by the people of Thina. What the Sesatai received in r ...

commerce and assign its practitioners to the lowest rung on a four-tier status scale below that of government officials, peasant ...

The Chinese traded with the peoples to their north, south, and east, but their most storied foreign trade was with the west, ini ...

use for the horses the Chinese obtained from the nomads was infighting against nomads (not necessarily the same ones the Chinese ...

Hyperboreans, all the way to the sea.”The Issedones appear to have been intentionally disseminating false information at least w ...