... others is arbitrary and myopic, as all realize; but clearly a great deal of work has to go in to exploring in more detail the rivalries, connections, and exchanges of all kinds that have encouraged an increasing number of scholars to talk about the “Global Middle Ages.” History Medieval History...

... waterways, knitting distant lands into relationship. 10 Global Middle Ages globalism modernity Industrial Revolution Tang shipwreck Belitung Shipwreck Asian Civilisations Museum Tang ceramics Sometime in the ninth century of the Common Era, in or after 826, an Arab dhow set sail from...