“如果没有贸易,人类交往的范围将受到很大限制,同样也难有促进许多辉煌文化繁荣的思想的相互交流。”——肯尼斯·麦克弗森《印度洋史》人们喜欢用简单的名词概括复杂的历史。选什么样的词,代表着对于这段历史有着怎样的理解。当我们仔细梳理那些形形色色的文化线路时,发现了一个非常有趣的现象。虽然它们都被冠以“文化”之名,被视作文化的线路,但其名称却是这样的——丝 “Without trade, human interaction will be greatly limited in scope and there will be no exchange of ideas that promote many brilliant cultural prosperity. ” - Kenneth McPherson Indian Ocean History People like to use simple Nouns summarize the complex history. What kind of word is chosen to represent what kind of understanding this history has. When we carefully sort out all kinds of cultural lines, found a very interesting phenomenon. Although all of them are labeled as “cultural”, they are regarded as cultural routes, but their names are like this - silk