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When Baghdad Traded with China: The Taiping S
In Episode 211 of Trade Routes, we trace a single strand of the Silk Road that connected Abbasid Baghdad to Tang China — the sea route through the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean. Lucas walks Luna through the bustling port of Siraf, where merchants loaded dates for Guangzhou, and tells the story of the Taiping Shiyi, a Chinese shipwreck that carried a million pieces of ceramics and a crew that included Persians and Arabs. They discuss how the Abbasids minted silver dirhams that turned up in Scandinavia, how Indian cotton travelled west, and how a Chinese prisoner, Du Huan, ended up in…
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