Muslim cultures and European cultures significantly collided in the trade of indigo between Asia and Europe.
Muslim cultures and European cultures significantly collided in the trade of indigo between Asia and Europe. During Marco Polo’s travels, he describes the many caravans traveling from areas of the Middle East and India that contained cloths dyed with the precious indigo. Marco Polo even goes into describing the process in which indigo dye is created saying that the dyes were created through removing the roots of the plant and fermenting the plant outside in a tub of boiling water. Marco Polo also encounters indigo trade and indigo multiple times through his trip through the middle east and India. Polo tells of the different religions that were located in specific areas, and the traders that came through those areas.
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"It is residence of many Christians and Jews, who retain their proper language [...] Indigo also, of excellent quality and in large quantities, is made here"(Polo 377). Along with this trade probably came the trade of languages, cultures, and religions. Muslim, Hindu, and many other religions were probably traded due to locations of trade and time period. For example, on the way to Europe, indigo trade probably passed through modern day Israel, mixing together possibly Hindu and Muslim cultures as seen through the location of the holy places of those religions. You have a lot of probably here. Maybe too much, you need to develop the interaction between Christians and Muslims to make this work.
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