Early European travelers had reached China overland…

1540 CE to 1683 CE

Early European travelers had reached China overland by traveling thousands of miles through Mongol- or Muslim-controlled territory in the fourteenth and fifteenth century, but Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, during the Age of Discovery, will arrive to China's southeastern coast in their own boats from Portuguese-controlled Malacca or the Spanish Philippines.

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Canton > Guangzhou Guangdong (Kwangtung) China View →

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Jews View → Christians, Eastern (Diophysite, or “Nestorian”) (Church of the East) View → Islam View → Mongols View → Portugal, Avizan (Joannine) Kingdom of View → Portuguese Empire View → Chinese Empire, Ming Dynasty View → Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of View → Philippines, Spanish colony of the View → Spanish East Indies View →

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Age of Discovery View → Colonization of Asia, Spanish View → Colonization of Asia, Portuguese View →

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Weapons View → Spices View →

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Commerce View → Products View → Symbols View → Writing View → Watercraft View → Labor and Service View → Exploration View → Faith View → Government View → Finance View →

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