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Silk
They wanted all of the good that they had.
The Asians wanted to stop trading with the Europeans basically because the Europeans had nothing they wanted or needed. The Opium war was what forced China to open up trades Britain.
silk was first found in china. when the Europeans went to China they saw the silk witch was made by the Chinease and they wanted the silk as the silk was really valuable back then.
marco polo
The Portuguese
Canton
America wanted free trade in China. Europeans wanted to control trading zones.
The Portugese were the first Europeans to reach the Indonesian Islands. The Europeans wanted to dominated the spice trade that was very lucrative at the time.
The Europeans wanted to avoid the Muslims of the Middle East
No they wanted to trade with Japan So It is false.
For a while they were isolated because they wanted to preserve their culture. They feared the Europeans would destroyed them if they got too close.