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2.How did China, Korea, and Japan react to the arrival of European traders in Asia? |
Travel Info 2.How did China, Korea, and Japan react to the arrival of European traders in Asia? Travel Tips On the topic, people often thought of the conflicts between Asian countries and European naval forces and reluctance of the former to open up in the 19th century. Actually, China had been trading with the West for many centuries before that, even back during Mongol times of the 12th century (remember Marco Polo?). Likewise Japan, in the 15th and 16th century with Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands. Asian countries only became suspicious of Western intentions when they learned of the British takeover of India (initially by the British East India Company), the Dutch occupying the East Indies (now Indonesia) and the Spaniards in the Philippines. That's when they clamped up and refused to admit western traders and missionaries as those were the intial westerners who paved the way, either intentionally or unintentionally, for western colonialism in India, the East Indies and the Philippines... Can you blame them? Others After they slaughered them or before? |
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