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Overall, China lacked for nothing by way of essentials: it was self-sufficient.
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Like the Portuguese, the Spanish worked tirelessly to suppress commercial and cartographic knowledge, but it proved impossible to seal the leaks.
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In 1371 China had banned all foreign maritime trade and people were forbidden from going to sea and contacting foreigners.
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In 1548, Giacomo Gastaldi produced the first "pocket book" atlas. For the first time, you could hold the world in your hands.
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Of the 550 who set out on the doomed voyage about 117 were alive at the end.
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It was believed that the Atlantic Ocean was enclosed by an encircling landmass with no possible exit to the East.
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