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Journal of European Economic History (2002): 9+ online. Gordon, Peter. The Silver Way: China, Spanish America and the Birth of Globalisation, 1565-1815 (Penguin 2017), 100pp excerpt; Hung, Ho-fung. "Imperial China and capitalist Europe in the eighteenth-century global economy." Review (Fernand Braudel Center) 24#4 (2001): 473–513. online
During the period of the south Indian Pallava dynasty and the north Indian Gupta Empire, Indian culture spread to Southeast Asia and the Philippines that led to the establishment of Indianized kingdoms. [69] [70] The date inscribed in the oldest Philippine document found so far, the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, is 900 CE.
The first documented European contact with the Philippines was made in 1521 by Ferdinand Magellan in his circumnavigation expedition, [1] during which he was killed in the Battle of Mactan. Forty-four years later, a Spanish expedition led by Miguel López de Legazpi left modern Mexico and began the Spanish conquest of the Philippines in the ...
Trade with China is believed to have begun during the Tang dynasty, but grew more extensive during the Song dynasty. [26] By the 2nd millennium CE, some Philippine polities were known to have sent trade delegations which participated in the Tributary system enforced by the Chinese imperial court, trading but without direct political or military ...
In the aftermath of World War II, European colonies, controlling more than one billion people throughout the world, still ruled most of the Middle East, South East Asia, and the Indian Subcontinent. However, the image of European pre-eminence was shattered by the wartime Japanese occupations of large portions of British, French, and Dutch ...
The expedition represented the first documented European contact with the Philippines. [109] Although the stated goals of Magellan's expedition were to find a passage through South America to the Moluccas and return to Spain laden with spices, at this point in the journey, Magellan seemed to acquire a zeal for converting the local tribes to ...
For the first time, China has publicized what it claims is an unwritten 2016 agreement with the Philippines over access to South China Sea islands. The move threatens to further raise tensions in ...
The Manila galleons were also known colloquially in New Spain as La Nao de China ("The China Ship"), because they carried mostly Chinese goods shipped from Manila. [ 3 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The Manila Galleon route was an early instance of globalization , representing a trade route from Asia that crossed to the Americas, thereby connecting all ...