USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Silk Road – Ancient Trading Route Between Europe and Asia. The Silk Road is a name given to the many trade routes that connected Europe and the Mediterranean with the Asian world. The route is over 6, 500 km long and got its name because the early Chinese traded silk along it.

Detailed explanation-2: -1517: The Portuguese merchant Fernão Pires de Andrade establishes the first European trade post on the Chinese coast at Tamão in the Zhujiang (Pearl River) estuary and then in Canton (Guangzhou).

Detailed explanation-3: -An evolving trade relationship Europe does not lose its relevance to Asia. There’s a long history to European-Asian trade, and there’s always been very deep integration between the two.

Detailed explanation-4: -Portugal was the first European power to establish a bridgehead in maritime Southeast Asia with the conquest of the Sultanate of Malacca in 1511.