ASIA IN 17 CENTURY

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PRESENTED BY-:

VARUN RAO
PRAVEEN NAMDEO
NEERAJ MANDAVI
 INTRODUCTION
• ASIA DURING 17 TH CENTURY CAN BE
CLASSIFIED INTO 3 BROAD CATEGORIES
• CHINA
• JAPAN
• INDIA
 TRADE OF CHINA
• PORCELIAN
SILK
 OPIUM TRADE
• HISTORY OF OPIUM TRADE IN CHINA
JAPANESE TRADE IN 17 CENTURY
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• EUROPEANS ARRIVED IN JAPAN IN 1543

• INTRODUCED REFINED SUGAR,
CONFECTIONARIES, CHOCOLATES, BISCUITS,
CHINESE SILK, INDIAN SPICES.
• JAPANESE EXPORTED SILVER, COPPER,
CRAFTSMANSHIP, METALSMITHING, SAMURAI
SWORDS.
 INDIAN TRADE
• Contact between Western Europe and the
Mughal empire was put into practice in the
very beginning of the 17th century. The
Portuguese, English, and later on, the Dutch
were the ones to communicate with the
Mughal empire. Even though the trade started
during the reign of Akbar the Great, his son
Jahangir was the one to strengthen this
economic activity in the Indian subcontinent
• India offered foreign traders the skills of its artisans
in weaving cloth and winding raw silk, agricultural
products for export, such as sugar, the indigo dye or
opium, and the services of substantial merchants
and rich bankers. During the 17th century at least,
the effective rule maintained by the Mughal
emperors throughout much of the subcontinent
provided a secure framework 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 to
Charles II in 1661 as part of the dowry of his
Portuguese bride, Catherine of Braganza, and
leased by him to the company in 1668).
 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.
• 1616 - China is invaded by the Tartars of Manchu.
• .1624 - All Spanish merchants and traders are expelled from Japan .
• 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 the Manchus.
• 1637 - Christianity is banned in Japan, foreign books and European
contacts are prohibited
• 1638 - Christians in Japan start the Shimabara Rebellion, revolting
against the harsh treatment. They lost.
• 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
• 1661 - With no rain for two years, there is famine in
India.
• 1662 - Eight year old K'ang-hsi becomes the second
Manchu emperor of China upon the death of his father
Shub Chi.
• 1668 - Bombay falls under the control of the British
East India Company.
• 1673 - In Japan, the powerful Mistui family founds a
trading and banking house.
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• 1680 - Tsunayoshi becomes Shogun of Japan
• 1683 - The Manchus conquer Formosa, later
known as Taiwan.
• 1685 - Foreign trade is allowed in all Chinese
ports.
• 1692 - Christians are granted an Edict of
Toleration in China.
• 1697 - Western Mongolia is conquered by China
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