Ashraf, Quamrul (contributor); Galor, Oded (contributor) - 2007
evidence
indicates that, as late as the end of the 1st millennium CE, the civilizations of Asia were well ahead
of Europe in … homogenous for some four thousand
years, was due, in large part, to it’s geographic isolation from the civilizations of India and … relatively infrequent exposure to cultural influence from other advanced
civilizations. Indeed, the origin of the sinocentric …