Hey, sorry I didn’t respond to your excellent reply the other day. Sometimes I’ll browse FR, but not have much time to formulate a response, then the thought of getting back flies out the window.
I’ve just ordered “The Roman Empire in the Indian Ocean” based on your recommendation. Besides being a couple of thousand years early, eastern trade with India was way off my ‘radar’. My Roman empire paradigm is Europe, a couple of hundred miles around the coastline of the Med, and the wilder areas of varied civilizations to the northeast of Italy. India and Rome were separate history books in my eduction.
Thanks again for these excellent posts and responses. I always appreciate them, even if there isn’t always a reply.
I’m still reading that book, since the internet, I’ve spent less time reading actual books. I’ve tried a Kindle version off something that was only available otherwise as a collectible, but it just isn’t the same, maybe because the phone screens are small. ;^)