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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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The Transformational Period in Chinese History

The tong song period is as the transitional period, as a transformative period in chinese history. As soon as people had the ability to build their own boats to ve relatively safely across the ocean and trade with far away states, they made a lot of money. And i think these practices that you've mentioned really, you see them throughout east asia and south east asia, well into,. say, the nineteenth century.

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