From 1405 to 1450, seven major trading trips of the Ming Dynasty led to the opening of many trade routes, connecting not only China but all of Asia with the Muslim countries of the Middle East and many African countries. These trips were under the command of the Emperor Zhu Di, and would allow the Chinese to explore new territories and thus be able to establish trade and diplomatic agreements with kings and emperors of distant lands. The fleet was built great and full of treasures on the ships, along with many ambassadors, with the intention of astonishing the kings of the lands visited and earning their tributes. Historically, journeys of the Ming dynasty travel served as a first way of uniting Asia, the Middle East and Africa, as well as the exchange of different materials, customs and technologies, along those journeys.
And to win over the people, he worked to improve and beautify the city of Rome. During his 40-years reign, Augustus nearly doubled the size of the empire, adding territories in Europe and Asia Minor and securing alliances that gave him effective rule from Britain to India.
With the Meiji Restoration, Japan received assistance from European powers and the US to foster industrialization. The era of centuries of isolation came to an end. There were cooperation and investment between Japan and the rest of the world. This cooperation led to academic-scientific exchanges, scholars and scientists learned from the other cultures in order to embrace elements of Modernity. Since Japan is an island with relative few raw materials, they concentrated on the sectors of production that involve the transformation of natural resources and providing later on multiple kinds of services. This went on a mass scale that positions Japan economically by the 1900s.
Some of the major factors leading to economic success:
The rapid and effective appropriation of Western techniques in industrial production.
The Meiji administration constructed national railroad systems, enhanced existing roads, and inaugurated land reforms and invested in communications industries.
Japan concentrated efforts in specific industries such as shipyards, iron smelters, and spinning mills, which were then sold to highly skilled entrepreneurs.
