Western Civilization II / Unit 4 WC2 0305 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Monopolies That Ran Only to Europe
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The idea
A company's monopoly covered trade bound for Europe and nothing else. The Indian Ocean's crossroads and the intra-Asian and African networks stayed in non-European hands. Europe was a node of a global economy, not yet its master.
In practice
The witness: Europeans in Japan confined to Dejima after sixteen forty.
Where people slip
Do not read this as nineteenth-century imperialism; unit 13 draws the line.
Your place on the trail
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