1500 as a Turning Points: The Birth of Globalization - Continuities in Asia and Africa

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Where did most of the trade from the Middle East, to Persia, to central Asia, Russia and western China depend on?

Much of this trade depended on special merchant groups, linked by religion and kinship, as had been the case before.

How was European interference with East Africa?

European interference occasionally touched East Africa, but here too for the most older patterns prevailed, with some new intensities.

How were Japan their trade connections?

Even as it fostered growing isolation in many ways, also built on some of its earlier trade connections in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By the early seventeenth century about 10 percent of the Japanese economy depended on exports, with Japanese shipping reaching not only China but also southeast Asia.

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