Global Asia Before Modernity

Vision of Buddha’s Paradise, Kushan Period, Gandhara

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This course explores the histories of Old World regions all across Afro-Eurasia from ancient to early modern times through studies of spatial mobility and territorial powers that shape cultural environments, material conditions, economic development, and social power relations, from Europe to China, all around the Silk Road and Indian Ocean.