When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the Riches of the East violets That's Not a Monster

That's Not a Monster

buoyant artwork conveys how something as simple and common as a tree can feel like magic taking root around you

Target  Age: 3-5

Hull House included thirteen buildings

When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the Riches of the East violets That's Not a MonsterWhile European civilization stagnated in the "Dark Ages," Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of spiritual, commercial, and intellectual connections, the distant regions of Asia's vast civilization, from Arabia to China, hummed with trade, international diplomacy, and the exchange of ideas. Stewart Gordon has fashioned a compelling and unique look at Asia from AD 700 to 1500 a time when Asia