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This 5 page paper discusses the book When China Ruled the Sea, written by Louise Levethes. This paper reveals the huge impact which shipping had in terms of making China a world leader at that time and establishing trade routes. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Ocean. Furthermore, there is much included which reveals the daily lives and culture of Ming China. For example, when Levathes speaks of the markets in Changan it is as
if the reader can imagine actually being there, through the descriptions of the sights, sounds, and smells Levathes evokes: "Changan emerged in the seventh century as the greatest city
in the world ... a mighty metropolis covering thirty square miles in the heart of the Yellow River valley in north China with more than two million taxable residents. ...
(It had) two enormous markets - an Eastern market that sold goods from within the borders of the Tang Empire and a western market that specialized in exotic goods from
India, Persia, southeast Asia, and beyond, to the distant shores of Africa... one could smell sandalwood from India or Java... frankincense from Somalia, as well as myrrh, used to treat
women who had suffered a miscarriage... there were Persian dates, saffron powder for perfume.... The cure for any ailment, from anywhere in the world, could be had for a price
in the western market of Changan."(35). Therefore, it becomes evident that this book is beneficial to the reader for many different reasons. First, it is certainly an interesting
account of daily life for the people in Ming China. One can actually visualize their lives and understand some of the ordinary transactions in their daily routines. Furthermore,
this book offers an extremely informative account of Chinese maritime history which provides the reader with a great understanding of how the markets in China originally developed. Furthermore, the
reader becomes aware of how trade with other countries developed, why it developed and what the consequences (good and bad) were as a result. The importance of
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