HIST 1007 Chapter : Hist 1007 9 24
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China didn"t obviously suffer from its decision to focus on inner stability and its culture. China controlled influence of the west, limited trade to. Ming emperors were able to consolidate their huge territory. Bureaucracy was handled well during the ming, better than ottomans. Trade was booming, industries expanding, agricultural production increasing, and population cycles increased. Thriving intrest in art and poetry, confucianism expanded this. Family structure- patriarchal control and ancestral tribute. Cost- benefit analysis, suffered destruction of mongols and black death, made them wary to spread themselves too thin. European- place of western europe in a changing world that it had no part of. In sailing and ship building were able to be implemented in europe without threat of invasion. Imitate chinese technology without having to put it to test. Encouraged progress in seafaring by spanish and portuguese. On atlantic ocean, ease of traveling through atlantic. Well positioned for the transfer from land trade to ocean trade.
