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    ASIA IN 17TH CENTURY

    PRESENTED BY-:

    VARUN RAO

    PRAVEEN NAMDEO

    NEERAJ MANDAVI

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    INTRODUCTION

    ASIA DURING 17 TH CENTURY CAN BE

    CLASSIFIED INTO 3 BROAD CATEGORIES

    CHINA JAPAN

    INDIA

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    TRADE OF CHINA

    PORCELIAN

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    SILK

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    OPIUM TRADE

    HISTORY OF OPIUM TRADE IN CHINA

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    JAPANESE TRADE IN 17TH CENTURY

    EUROPEANS ARRIVED IN JAPAN IN 1543

    INTRODUCED REFINED SUGAR,

    CONFECTIONARIES, CHOCOLATES, BISCUITS,CHINESE SILK, INDIAN SPICES.

    JAPANESE EXPORTED SILVER, COPPER,

    CRAFTSMANSHIP, METALSMITHING, SAMURAI

    SWORDS.

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    India offered foreign traders the skills of itsartisans in weaving cloth and winding raw silk,agricultural products for export, such as sugar,

    the indigo dye or opium, and the services ofsubstantial merchants and rich bankers. Duringthe 17th century at least, the effective rulemaintained by the Mughal emperors throughout

    much of the subcontinent provided a secureframework for trade.

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    Bombay, Madras and Calcutta were established in

    the Indian provinces where cotton textiles for

    export were most readily available

    Surat remains the English headquarters on the

    west coast until it is gradually replaced, between

    1672 and 1687, by Bombay (given toCharles II in

    1661 as part of the dowry of his Portuguesebride, Catherine of Braganza, and leased by him

    to the company in 1668).

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    CULTURAL EVENTS

    As with most timelines, this is an arbitrary list which leaves

    out some important events, while at the same time includes

    some less well known ones

    1600 -Ieyasu Tokugawa maneuvers himself into the position

    of supreme ruler in Japan and he moves the capital from

    Kyoto to Edo.

    1605 - The Mogul Emperor of India, Akbar, dies, and is

    succeeded to the throne by his son Jahangir. .

    1611 - Dutch merchants only are permitted to trade in Japan

    from the island of Deshima in Nagasaki.

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    1616 - China is invaded by the Tartars of Manchu.

    .1624 - All Spanish merchants and traders are expelled fromJapan .

    Shah Jahan (1592-1666) succeeds his father Jahangir to

    become Great Mogul of India. 1629 - Shah Jahan orders the most expensive piece of

    furniture in history, the Peacock Throne, to be built.

    1636 - The Ch'ing Dynasty is proclaimed at Mukden by theManchus.

    1637 - Christianity is banned in Japan, foreign books andEuropean contacts are prohibited

    1638 - Christians in Japan start the Shimabara Rebellion,revolting against the harsh treatment. They lost.

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    1645 - The building of the Dalai Lama's

    residence is underway in Lhasa, Tibet

    1651 -Yetuna, the new shogun of Japan,

    overcomes two rebellions in Edo

    1658 - Aurangzeb imprisons his father, Shah

    Jahan in the Red Fort, and succeeds him as

    Mogul Emperor

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    1661 - With no rain for two years, there is faminein India.

    1662 - Eight year old K'ang-hsi becomes the

    second Manchu emperor of China upon thedeath of his father Shub Chi.

    1668 - Bombay falls under the control of theBritish East India Company.

    1673 -In Japan, the powerful Mistui familyfounds a trading and banking house.

    .

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    1680 - Tsunayoshi becomes Shogun of Japan

    1683 - The Manchus conquer Formosa, laterknown as Taiwan.

    1685 - Foreign trade is allowed in all Chineseports.

    1692 - Christians are granted an Edict of

    Toleration in China. 1697 - Western Mongolia is conquered by

    China

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