A whistle-stop tour around the world in AD 1500
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What's Happening in Asia?
From 1500, you start to see a much more mobile world picture and these economies have been very much driven by maritime trade and exchange. And Europe comes into that quite late. So it's land-based imperial power in Eurasia, but it's also being driven by maritimetrade and exchange as the century progresses.
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