HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Indirect Tax, Thirteen Factories, Chinese Tea
31 Oct 2016
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History 1dd3- china in the 19th century part 1. During the 17th and 18th century, the chinese empire was the largest unified political unit in the world, with technology and an economy that far outshone that of europe or anywhere else. Chinese fleets had reached far into the pacific and into the indian ocean. European traders since before marco polo in the 13th century sought to bring chinese. Between the 15th and through 18th centuries, china was at the center of global luxury luxury goods back to europe. Japan, both societies turned inward over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries. For complex domestic reasons connected to the political situations within china and. They tried to limit or regulate their contact with foreign traders, political emissary and. By the mid 18th century, the europeans had caught up with these east asian societies in missionaries terms of technology and military might.
