East Asia and the World Willard

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East Asia and the World: Contact and Cross-Cultural Influences, 1200-1800

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East Asia and Long-Distance Trading Systems The Silk Road The Indian Ocean Trade The Pacific Trade

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The Indian Ocean Region, 1300s-1800 . Third largest ocean . Bordered by diverse environments . No single dominant political power . World’s richest commercial zone

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Goods of the Indian Ocean Trade Clockwise from top left: Chinese porcelain bowl (Ming Dynasty); Arab Traders and African Slaves at a Yemeni market (14th c.); Chinese silk; Nutmeg and mace

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Ships of the Indian Ocean Trade Clockwise from top left: Dutch Galleons (17th c.); Replica of the Caravel Santa Maria (15th c.); Arab Dhow; Replica of a Chinese merchant Junk (17th c.)

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‘Treasure ship’ of Zheng He’s ‘ fleet drawn to scale with the Santa Maria

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Early Chinese Gunpowder Technologies “Fire Arrows,” 13th century Cannon, late 14th century

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The Mongols Spread the Power of Gunpowder Clockwise from top left: Genghis Khan (Temujin) (1167?-1227); Mongol Army lays siege to Central Asian city (from a 14th-c. Persian manuscript); the extent of the Mongol empire by the death of Genghis,1227

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“I am saddened to hear…of your illness. I had looked forward to your visit to our province as I had heard about your person and about the fact that through your suggestion the governor-general [of Goa] had sent me some guns. It was unfortunate that they were lost…during the voyage from Malacca, but I owe you an expression of gratefulness just as if they had arrived. I have not had the fortune of obtaining these guns, and I have not abandoned the hope to procure some. My faith in God and the protection I have extended to Christians and Portuguese in my province should sufficiently indicate that I am the servant and friend of the king of Portugal…Therefore I hope that you will write a letter to the governor and inform him that I am entitled to be given guns as presents…If I succeed in defending my province and enabling it to prosper, the church, missionaries, Christians, as well as all the Portuguese who come will prosper” Letter from the Japanese Lord of Bungo to the Portuguese Dom Belchior Carneiro and the Jesuits in Macao (1568)

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Illustration for the entry “Maize” from a late 16th-century English botanical manual South American potato types (contemporary illustration) American Crops Come to East Asia

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The Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) (left) with one of his Chinese disciples St. Philip of Jesus (Mexican painting, late 1700s) Christianity in East Asia

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Isolation or Engagement, or Both? Nagasaki harbor, Japan, 17th century Note the European ships in the center and left, with Japanese ships at the bottom. The Dutch trading post at Deshima Island is located on the far left.