Meeting the Mughals: England’s disastrous first embassy to India
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The Big Thing That Keeps English Merchants Awake at Night
In the late 16th century, there was a slow separation between England and continental Europe. English wool brought in huge amounts of revenue until then. What happens when those trade routes start drying up? You have to find alternative trade routes,. perhaps in the global south, new trade treaties. And what people of India have wanted the wool?
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