POL208Y1 Lecture 13: Lecture 13.docx
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The salt trade between 8th and 16th ad. The silk road from asia to europe carrying silk and spices. In every couples of kilometers there are (cid:129)ekhans(cid:129)f and are buildings used for motels. The govt wanted to encourage trade so they built these centres so merchants could rest and eat, and they also collected taxes there. European powers wanted to go to the sources and origins of asian goods so they began exploring and the european maritime explorations were fueled by trade. The opium wars between britain (and europe) and china. In the 19th century the english discovered tea and they developed a liking to tea. Britain bought more tea than china bought tweed jackets. Britain started to cultivate opium in india, they sold tweed to india and india sold opium to china. Chinese became addicted to opium very quickly and soon the deficit was on the chinese.
