ASNS2661 Lecture 1: wk 1 part 1

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Asian Studies
• Course: ASNS2661
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Miksic, singapore and the silk road of the sea (ssrs) chapter 1, chapter. The second ancient book about trade in the indian ocean guide to geography written around ad 150. His work remained the most detailed book on world geography for over a thousand years. Arabs of the abbasid period knew about and used the book. Potemaeous gave coordinates for 16 places in the golden peninsula, which were relatively accurate. These two texts show that commercial practises had already become standardised along the silk road of the sea by the time of the roman empire. The route is detected by bronze dongson made in vietnam found as far east as papua new guinea: artifacts in sahuynh style found in vietnam provides evidence of the ancestral culture of people known as cham. Chams, malays, javanese obtained spices (cloves, nutmeg, mace) from the spice islands and voyaged north towards vietnam, returning with bronzes.