China 1400’s

In the early 1400s most tidy sum did non venture outside of their birthplace. Most did not live bulky lives. They died either from child birth, famine, or sickness. Their knowledge of Arts, medicine, work, and law was confined to the subtile village and the families that lived there. They would have travelled only a few miles to the attached village to trade or shop for necessities. The bulk of their food uptake would have been corn, wheat, sorghum, rice and barley. But not too far onward in the same world there were missionaries, pilgrims, explorers, conquerors, seaman, caravan leaders and merchants.Explorers and conquerors make their way to villages and took people into their web of networks most against their will. In the beginning merchants were alike lower class people. They were watched closely, and their activities were regulated. However as the world got bigger the merchants grew in power, wealth, and status. China was a power house in the early 1400s. They were an a dvance region and would have been best prepared for the emerging world market. They were commerce silk, spices, tea, religion, and sickness. Sickness was a drawback/ disadvantage of having travelers, merchants and traders in your area.China had a fleet of ships that traveled to places such as Calicut, Thailand, and other countries. But in 1421 a emperor named Yongle stopped a voyages by the Ming Fleet, and in 1436 emperor Zhu Qizhen ordered the decease of all shipbuilding plans. China became isolated from other countries and isolated from itself merchants and traders were not supported by the government and were not protected from pirates. The population or so tripled in size from the 1400s to the 1600 to a staggering 160 million. The legal age were poor and could not purchase from Chinese traders.