<span>- Chinese products (especially silk) were vital to the Afro-Eurasian trade networks - Chinese technologies (shipbuilding, navigation, gunpowder, printing) spread to other regions of Eurasia - Buddhism greatly affected China - China's trade with the rest of the world made it the richest country in the world -
Most highly commercialized society in the world too, with regions
(especially in the south) producing for the market as opposed to for
local consumption - China adopted cotton and sugar crops and how to refine them from India</span>
