#maritime-trade

#maritime-trade

Ming China fostered expansive Silk Road networks, balancing land and maritime routes while pursuing a non-invasive foreign policy aimed at 'shared peace' with foreign powers.

Victorian East Londoners, including children, left material traces—school slates, marbles—and the dockside community accessed imported luxuries such as Chateau Margaux wine seals.

Venice's Arsenale was a government-controlled 24-hectare shipyard and weapons factory that standardized production and powered Venetian maritime trade and military dominance for eight centuries.

The Maldives played a crucial role in China's maritime history and historical trade networks from 1100 to 1620.