Silk Roads Trade and Zheng He's Voyages
Up until the European age of exploration beginning with 15th century Portuguese explorers attempting to find routes around the Cape of Good Hope to the Indian Ocean and on to the Spice Islands, the southern and eastern hemispheres were alive with land and sea commercial activity. Indians, Arabs, Micronesians, Malays, and Chinese all contributed to a process the Chinese historian Lynda Schaffer called, "Southernization." On land and water this trade was conducted over the Silk Roads, as the map below illustrates.
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