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A Summary on Shipwrecks of the Pre-contact Period and the Development of Regional Maritime Trade Network in East Asia

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Early Navigation in the Asia-Pacific Region

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Maritime culture has been the main driving force of globalization resulting from intercontinental cultural exchange over past 500 years. After the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama reached India in 1498, Europeans ventured in increasing numbers into East and Southeast Asia, gradually establishing colonies there. European contact and the beginning of trade globalization in Eastern Asia since the 16th century opened the gate to modernization of this region. Even before the European exploration, however, there had been a long and complex history of maritime trade in eastern Asian seas for hundreds and even thousands of years. This pre-contact “native” maritime network provided an important foundation for the early stages of globalization that would follow.

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Wu, C. (2016). A Summary on Shipwrecks of the Pre-contact Period and the Development of Regional Maritime Trade Network in East Asia. In: Wu, C. (eds) Early Navigation in the Asia-Pacific Region. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0904-4_1

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