High Middle Ages · East Asia · Exploration
1058
Song Dynasty Expands Maritime Trade from Guangzhou
1058
The Song court's Maritime Trade Superintendency at Guangzhou oversaw a boom in seaborne commerce, as Chinese junks loaded with silk, porcelain, and lacquerware sailed for Southeast Asian and Indian Ocean ports. Foreign merchants - Arab, Persian, Indian, Malay - crowded the city's designated quarter. The customs revenues pouring into Song coffers made the empire's southern coast as strategically vital as its perpetually threatened northern frontier.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.