The document summarizes evidence disproving common Eurocentric myths about the dominance and isolation of Eastern civilizations like India, Southeast Asia, and Japan between 1400-1800. It shows that the East was economically and technologically ahead of the West during this period, with India and China contributing over 75% of global manufacturing output in 1750. The document also argues that states like the Mughal Empire and Tokugawa Shogunate actively promoted trade and economic growth, disproving notions of "oriental despotism" and isolationism.

1. The Eastern Origins of Western Civilization Chapter 4 - The East Remains Dominant: the twin myths of oriental despotism and isolationism in India , South-east Asia and Japan , 1400-1800 Class: Periwinkle Central and South Asia John Estrella Alexis Feliciano Kate Heaney

2. The East over the West, 1200-1800 Proof that the East was ahead of Europe in economics, trading, and standard of living

7. Map of the State of Gujarat (including Surat)

9. Goods of the Trade Oil Textiles Rice Pulses Wheat

12. Straits of Melaka/Malacca

13. Cheng-Ho’s Expeditions (1405-33) Cheng Ho’s voyages falsify the assumption that Melaka was only significant after 1511

15. Indian Ocean Trade Routes

16. The myth of Japanese oriental despotism and isolationism: Japan as an ‘early developer’, 1600-1868 Even though Eurocentrics portray Japan as a backwards country, Japanese economic growth rates that were experienced in the post-1868 Meiji period exceeded those of almost all the European economies. Much of the relative ease of the Meiji achievement is now attributed to the start which that the Tokugawa gave it.

18. Japanese Industry: Goods & Professions Textiles Fishing Iron & Metalworking Soy Sauce