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The Name of China and its Geography in Cosmas Indicopleustes |
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时间：2009-7-24 13:48:43 来源：不详
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son of Tzinitza with Persia and the Roman Empire indicates that those three nations could geographically be located in the same parallel, and politically be placed on a par in their greatness and importance. Assam had evidently no chance to emerge into such an eminence, albeit its role in traffic between China and India.
Moreover, Cosmas knew the distance from Tzinitza to Persia by land is shorter than that by sea, and by which he explains the fact why “there is always to be found a great quantity of silk in Persia.” If we take into consideration that the cnetral silk route had played dominant role in the movement of silk from China to the West before the middle of the 8th century, it will be odd and unconceivable for any trader with acute insight to overlook the vital artery of traffic, and therefore it would be paradoxical to conclude that the central silk route is ignored by such a silk dealer as Cosmas.
Finally, Cosmas enumerates the nations and well-known places in order like this:
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