Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity: Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250-750

Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity (PDF) provides an integrated photo of Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppes throughout a developmental duration of world history. In the half millennium in between 250 and 750 CE, settled empires went through deep structural modifications, while different nomadic individuals of the steppes (Huns, Avars, Turks, and others) experienced considerable interactions and motions that altered their societies, cultures, and economies. This was a transformational age, a time when Roman, Persian, and Chinese kings were equally familiar with court practices, and when Christians and Buddhists criss-crossed the Eurasian lands together with merchants and armies. It was a time of higher blood circulation of concepts along with product items. This volume offers a conceptual frame for finding these advancements in the very same area and time. Without arguing for harmony, it lights up the affiliations and networks that connected numerous regional cultural expressions to significant inter-regional ones.