You didn't give a time period but since its early most civilizations were based on agriculture
Spain and Portugal, when they were still ruled by kings
They were interested in reading, and wanted to learn, regardless the rules.
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The only Europeans that were allowed to trade with the Japanese following the expulsion of all christians were the Dutch.
During the Sakoku, the isolationist foreign policy of the Tokugawa shogunate, the only contact with european influence allowed was with the Dutch who had a factory at Dejima in Nagasaki, and through the Dutch East India Company who was allowed to operate in Nagasaki.
