PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 377
COMPLETE ROUTE ↗STAGE 02broadNO SINGLE PIN
first half of the 11th century
Persian scholarly awareness
چای DOSSIER ↗Iranica reports Bīrūnī discussing čāy and its use in China and Tibet, while refusing to equate awareness with widespread Persian adoption.
- COORDINATES STORED
- NO
- HONEST TO PLOT
- NO
- PLACEMENT MODE
- broad
- TIME PRECISION
- range
- NUMERIC TIME BOUND
- YES
- CLAIM CITATIONS
- 1
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PLACE IN GLOBAL CHRONOLOGY ↗DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE
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- supports
ČĀY — Tea
Reports first-half-eleventh-century awareness while preserving adoption uncertainty.
The spread of tea in the Persian world — BīrūnīAUDIT SOURCE ↗