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The Rise of Merchants: Maritime Sea Trade in East Asia in the 10th to 12th centuries

The Chinese History Podcast

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Did Merchants Have a Bigger Contribution?

After the tongu dynasty, private trade becomes more for the sake of private trade. But did these merchants have a bigger contribution in terms of their role in society and between societies? They were doing a lot of, a lot of different things. So first of all, they were trading prestige goods, very, very expensive items. It was mainly prestige goods, probably from the ninth century on. Afterwards, you see more commodities. Japan starts trading sulphur. Sulphur becomes a very big export. China starts shipping out lots and lots tens of millions of copper coins japan. And chinese were also setting up communities in japan as well. At first, there was one main community

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