cross culture trade in world history by Curtin

the paper is about how Europeans came to dominate world trade. Europeans still have a very important role in trade since more than 90 percent of the world is well acquainted with the European culture. Though, like the Asians who according to Curtin had never fallen behind in trade, even during the bad times like the stagnation during the 18th century brought by the decline of centralized government of the Persian and the Mughal empires( Curtin 157). This decline helped the Europeans in creating what curtin calls the "European Age", where Europe dominated in world trade leading to I think the creation of the east Indian Trade Company ( Curtin 157). This domination also lead to the universal usage of European culture in clothing, language, or other things, we see the influence of their culture everywhere. Moreover, the main groups to look at at this era is the relationship between the Arabs, protégées, Chinese and Japanese. The protégées wanted to cut the Arabs trade from India and Southeast Asia but could not. At the same time china had a law against foreign trades so they were Chinese merchants that bought protégées citizenship papers so they could trade with Fujian and Southeast Asia. Japan on the other hand was involving itself by copying protégées trade ships ( curtin 148).so basically this shows us not only the problems that cross culture trade experienced, but how it helped expend the cultures and empires of some nations especially the European nations.