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Post by Sō Haruko on May 18, 2013 0:03:32 GMT -5
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Post by Please Delete on May 18, 2013 8:11:38 GMT -5
Very cool. I'm not entirely surprised--the Pacific trade was booming after the Viceroy of Mexico conquered the Philippines in 1565. It is definitely further signs of contact between Japan and Europe. More and more people are coming to realize that, just because we only get a few explorers thrown at us in school, and the trips were so long, that doesn't mean that there wasn't a constant flow of hopeful adventurers making their way back and forth across the seas. The world was much more connected in the 16th century than we tend to give it credit for.
-Ii
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Post by yumehime on Jul 27, 2013 6:35:14 GMT -5
Honestly, given the silk roads, I always had skepticism that the ONLY Japanese to get to Europe were part of one missionary trip.
Japan, Korea and China traded, and Chinese silk can get to Europe, but was it all really Chinese made silk? Mongolians captures new soldiers wherever they went, including China and Europe. The likelihood of no Japanese people ever joining the great golden horde is amazingly improbable, as is the likelihood of Japanese slaves never being sold to other countries, kidnapped by foreigners or sold by their own nation.
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