Imitation and Inspiration: the ceramic trade from China to Basra and back
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Introduction With the decline in the overland Silk Routes in the fifth century AD, traders from West Asia looked increasingly to the sea for alternative routes to China, and the silk they so highly valued. By the seventh century, with new advances in rigging technology and celestial navigation, they had successfully mastered the long seaborne journey, establishing the transoceanic sailing route from East Africa to China. During this Golden Age of Muslim sail, Arab and Persian merchants dominated commerce with China, exchanging, among other things, African ivory and Arabian incense for Chinese silk and porcelain.
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