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In my short treatise entitled "Pepper Centuries in China 1300-1500" (printed in Kokumin Keizai Zasshi, vol. 102, No. 3, September, 1960), the present writer made an attempt to demonstrate that the remarkable development of the consumptive life in the major cities during the Sung and Yuan period brought about a great demand for pepper produced in Java and Sumatra, the quantities of which, imported into China at that time, being greater than those imported by all the European countries. The big demand for pepper, in the contemporary China, in its turn, resulted in a phenomenal prosperity in the various trading cities in Indonesia, and the inhabitants in these cities came to demand more and more Indian cotton yarn and cloth, it was pointed out in the treatise. This situation, it was strongly believed, was responsible for the growing traffic of Islamic tradesmen in India and their eventual settling down there. Moreover, this, constituted the major factor for the ultimate formation of the so-called Islamic culture. It should be noted, however, that, behind all this, Europe, Southwestern Asia and India continued to create big demand for the spices produced in Indonesia (Moluccas). This fact should be taken into account side by side with the aforesaid demand for Indonesian pepper shown by China. The objective of the short essay, alluded to above, were to depict, as far as possible, the two international commercial spheres in existence over the spacious sea areas comprising Malacca, Southern Asia and China, and in particular, to describe the dissemination of of the Islamic culture in Indonesia in 14-15 centuries in an attempt to demonstrate their organic links with a similar commercial sphere then prevailing on the European Continent. The description, it was hoped, will clarify the trade situation in Southern Asia on the eve of the advent of the 16th century, this eventually providing a premise for better comprehending how the contemporary Portuguese traders schemed to expand their hegemony in Asia and ultimately achieved such ambitions.
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