cosmopolitan
(noun)
A city/place or person that embraces its multicultural demographics.
Examples of cosmopolitan in the following topics:
-
The Silk Road
- China was open to foreign cultures, and its urban areas could be quite cosmopolitan.
-
The Swahili Culture
- These early Swahili city-states were Muslim, cosmopolitan and politically independent of each other.
-
Trade Under the Tang Dynasty
- At the same time, the Chinese empire welcomed foreign cultures, making it very cosmopolitan in its urban centres.
-
Rise of the Tang Dynasty
- It is generally regarded as a high point in Chinese civilization, and a golden age of cosmopolitan culture.
-
Trade and Currency Under the Yuan
- Mongol rule was cosmopolitan under Kublai Khan.
-
The Theme System
- By the end of the Heraclian Dynasty in 711 CE, the empire had transformed from the Eastern Roman Empire, with its urbanized, cosmopolitan civilization, to the medieval Byzantine Empire, an agrarian, military-dominated society in a lengthy struggle with the Muslims.
-
Spread of Islam
- Islamic expansion in South and East Asia fostered cosmopolitan and eclectic Muslim cultures in the Indian subcontinent, Malaysia, Indonesia, and China.