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By Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

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Their pundits had no conception of the horrors of realĀ­ politik inseparable from a colonial regime. They had no sense of mission, no idea of sturm und drang. Theoretically the Son of Heaven ruled the whole world, fien hsia, 'all under heaven,' and his envoys eonsid(cred it enough to show themselves to the non-descript barbarians on the fringes of the civilized world', in order to usher in a millennium of the Son of activated by the serene Heaven the Willetts, Papers on Early SQuth-east History, pp.

At least so it seemed to European treasuries of the same epoch. There are other explanations which argue in terms of alternative foci of political attention diverting the initial interest in Indian Ocean exploration. For example G. F. Hudson argues that the removal northward of the capital, from Nanking to Peking in 1421. which was the consequence of the growing menace of the Mongol nomad barbarians, may have diverted imperial attention. ~l\l M. A. P. Meilink-Roelofsz suggests that 116T'ien-Tse Chang, Trade From 1514 to 1644 (Leiden, Brill, 1934),30.

Finally, exploration and the consequent trade currents provided job outĀ­ lets for the urban semi proletariat many of whom had fled to the towns because of the increased exploitation consequent upon the seigniorialcrisis. Once again, a potential for internal disorder was minimized by the external expansion. And if these conjunctures ofwill and possibility were not enough, Portugal was blessed by the best possible geographic location for the enterprise, best possible both because of its jutting out into the Atlantic and toward the south but also because of the convergence of favorable oceanic currents.

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