The Millennium Maritime Trade Revolution, 700-1700: How Asia Lost Maritime Supremacy

This book explains how and why and how destructive continental influences destroyed Asia's maritime supremacy. Following the series' first book How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World, this book continues to demonstrate how maritime trade has been the key driver of the world's wealth-creation, economic and intellectual progress. The story begins where the first book ends, when following Roman Empire collapse, 7th-century European maritime trade almost ceased, creatin...