1514: Discover the Ming Dynasty
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The ninth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, that is, 1514 AD, was an unusual year. It was considered the beginning of the era of globalization. One day this year, a Portuguese man named Jorge Alvarez, led by Chinese merchants from Malacca, came to Tuenmen, Guangzhou (in today's Shenzhen) for the first time in the Ming Dynasty, conducted transactions with Chinese merchants, and returned with a full load. This was the first recorded European contact with China since the time of Marco Polo. While the people of the Ming Dynasty were unaware, the old world order established based on the tribute system was ruthlessly torn apart. A force from the ocean began to involve it in a new world system full of dangers. However, it was unaware that it still operated according to the logic of traditional agricultural civilization... The collision of marine civilization and agricultural civilization opened a new world order in the Age of Discovery.
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