It’s pure entertainment and people love it and I don’t know
        
             
        
        
        
Indians- india virtually clothes the entire world, cotton textiles, mathematics, numerals, and invention of zero. 
Malays- most intrepid sailors of the time period, many delivered goods from South China to East Africa, spices cloves ,nutmeg, & mace.
Chinese- champa rice, printing, gunpowder, Daoism, Buddhism, compass, silk improved in india, middle east, north africa and islamic spain. Discovering a silver mine as well as gold.
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:
The city was a land route from Europe to Asia and a waterway between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The strategic geographic location of Byzantium protected it from attacks.