Abstract
In the 16-17th centuries, world trade patterns greatly changed. In the East world, the traditional Asian maritime trade network—which mainly relied on maritime merchants in the Southeast China, was gradually restored. Around 1500, the Western world reached the Age of Sail. The Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch came to the East Asian Seas one after another, intervening in the traditional trade network of Asia. They integrated it into global trade system by transcontinental and transoceanic remote trade. After the discovery of the American continent in 1492 by the Spanish kingdom of Castille, and the establishment of the Eastward sailing route to India by the kingdom of Portugal in the late 1400s, both Spainish and Portuguese arrived to Asia-Pacific region in the 1500s and interacted with local cultures in Eastern Asia. Their navigation between west and east set up the early globalization situation. The silk and porcelains from China, spices from Southeast Asia, textiles from India, and coins from Mexico and Japan, were all important commodity and media in the global trade market of this period. Dozens of shipwrecks dated to this period have been found off the southeast coast of China, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia. They were identified as both East Asian maritime vessels (including Chinese junks) and European exploration and trading vessels. Chinese porcelains were the main cargoes of these boats. Besides, a lot of silver coins of European colonial of this period were also collected from the land sites and shipwrecks in the Southeast China. These interesting maritime archaeological materials show early pan-Pacific trading navigation between eastern Asia and the Western world and the early stage of global trade.
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Liu, M. (2016). Early Maritime Cultural Interaction Between East and West: A Preliminary Study on the Shipwrecks of 16th–17th Century Investigated in East Asia. In: Wu, C. (eds) Early Navigation in the Asia-Pacific Region. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0904-4_10
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