"As Donald F. Lach details in the first two parts of Volume One of Asia in the Making of Europe, the growth of the spice trade, the invention of printing, and the spread of Jesuit missions during the sixteenth century gradually changed the legendary character of Asia in European minds. By 1600 there was a body of knowledge derived from the writings of merchant travelers and missionaries and from the printed maps of cartographers. For the first time, European could have known, by 1600, about each individual area comprise the chapters now available as paperbacks, with new prefaces by the author."
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