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Pages: 305
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-27 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Long before Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope en route to India, the peoples of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia engaged in vigorous cross-cultural e
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Language: en
Pages: 305
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This book documents the relationship and wisdom of Asian cartographers in the Islamic and Chinese worlds before the Europeans arrived.
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The Cambridge World History: Volume 5, Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conflict, 500CE–1500CE
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Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth of regional and trans-regional sta
Medieval Islamic Maps
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Authors: Karen C. Pinto
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The history of Islamic mapping is one of the new frontiers in the history of cartography. This book offers the first in-depth analysis of a distinct tradition o