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Muslims in middle east invented the knowledge superhighway.
They used the Roman, Greek, Persian, indian and Chinese tech and blend it and made it available for anyone to share.
The Christians more or less destroyed early Greek manuscripts but were able to retrieve if from Muslim libraries when they emerged from their religious madness.
Arabs and persians started trading and settled in Guangzhou in the 700's. I am not sure about indians.
This eventually ended with the massacre as follows:-
The Guangzhou Massacre was a massacre of the inhabitants of the prosperous port city of Guangzhou in 878–879 by the rebel army of Huang Chao who was attempting to overthrow the Tang dynasty. Victims included tens of thousands of foreign merchants, mainly Arabs and Persians.
| Guangzhou massacre | |
|---|---|
| Location | Guangzhou, Tang dynasty |
| Date | 878–879 |
| Deaths | 120,000[1]–200,000 (various estimates) |
| Perpetrators | Huang Chao's rebel army |
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BackgroundEdit
An earlier Yangzhou massacre (760) took place in which Chinese rebels under Tian Shengong massacred the wealthy Arab and Persian merchant community.[2][3][4]
Arab and Persian pirates raided and looted warehouses in Guangzhou (known to them as Khanfu or Sin-Kalan) in AD 758, according to a local Guangzhou government report on October 30, 758, which corresponded to the day of Guisi (癸巳) of the ninth lunar month in the first year of the Qianyuan era of Emperor Suzong of the Tang dynasty.[5][6][7][8] (大食, 波斯寇廣州)[9]
As Huang’s forces scourged China from north to south, they arrived at the gates of Guangzhou in 878. His troops stormed Guangzhou, terrorizing the city and targeting the foreign population, which had grown quite wealthy over the years. Huang Chao’s rebel forces tapped into popular sentiment that somehow the decline of the Tang fortunes and their own lives had been made worse by the presence of avaricious foreigners. Vengeance was brutal, with a death toll in what became known as the “Guangzhou Massacre” possibly reaching nearly 200,000 casualties, according to Arab sources.
MassacreEdit
The Chinese rebels led by Huang Chao slaughtered Jews, Muslim Arabs, Muslim Persians, Zoroastrians (a.k.a. Parsees or Mazdaists) and Christians when they seized and conquered, according to Arab writer Abu Zayd Hasan As-Sirafi. Huang Chao's army was in Guangzhou during 878–879.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16] Mulberry groves were also ruined by Huang's army.[17] According to Liu Xu (887–946), the lead editor of the Old Book of Tang, one of the official histories of the preceding Tang dynasty, thousands of Arab and Persian traders were killed when Yang-zhou was looted by the army of the rebel Tian Sheng-Gong.[18]
Most of the victims were foreign and wealthy.[19]
The death toll could have ranged from 120,000 to 200,000 foreigners.[20][21][22]
So as you can see, Arabs do trading with Chinese for over a thousand years by land and sea.
