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

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What We Don't Know About the Song Dynasty

There's probably a lot more that we don't know about these earlier periods because we just don't have the sources. And i suspect, i can't prove this at all, but if we were, if we somehow had way more primary sources from the hun dynasty, i suspect we would see it even further back. But essentially, people will do all kinds of crazy things to get rich. That that hasn't changed, right? So i guess all this has already started to happen in the ninth yes, yes. It goes back to the ninth century.

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