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Economic And Cultural World Dbq Essay

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The most two worlds that were most affected by being a site of encounter in Quanzhou were the Economic and culture world. The culture world lead to more trade which greatly affected China and the Economic world lead to more education around China.

The Culture world was one of the two worlds that was affected by the site of encounter in Quanzhou. “Wang Yuan Mao was a Quanzhou man. In his youth, he worked as a mere handyman in a Buddhist monastery. His masters taught him how to read the books of the southern barbarian lands, with all of which he was able to become closely acquainted; and he accompanied seagoing junks to Champa. ”(Doc C). He was taught barbarian language and culture which made the king of Champa give his daughter up for marriage to the Quanzhou man and bought him his limitless fortune. The Quanzhou man has a limitless fortune, because he was able to …show more content…

This proves that Quanzhou greatly affected the culture world because it led to more education which greatly affected China. According to Marco Polo’s book “I should tell you that in this city (i.e. Zayton) they have a peculiar language. For you should know that throughout all Manzi they use only one language and one kind of writing, but yet there are local differences of dialect, as you say of Genoese, Milanese, Florentines, and Neapolitans, who though they speak different dialects can understand one another.”(Doc A). This lead into more education around the city because every town has its own language which wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for quanzhou since different languages aren’t important because they have trade there. This supports that the culture world was the one of the two most affected worlds by quanzhou because most people around the city

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