Southeast Asia and China traded using the Silk Road, which involved mostly China and Europe, the Burma Road and some other local trade routes on land. They traded at sea using different water routes, which included the Spice Trade, which also mostly involved China and Europe, but included Southeast Asia as well. The Chinese traveled to Europe on the Silk Road by caravans, but the Chinese had to stop in Southeast Asia before they could reach Europe. The Southeast Asian ports offered shipping services and warehouses for visiting traders. (Wickberg, 162-163, 167)

The Spice Trade was formed by Southeast Asia’s development as an influential trading port. The main city involved in the Spice Trade was Malacca, a major cit

Besides the iron, ivory, porcelain and silk, China also traded many other metals, such as tin, copper and lead. They traded jewelry, such as pearls, diamonds and jade also. They also traded ceramics, petroleum, pottery and food. This trade helped China become very wealthy. They had a surplus of building materials, which they used to construct boats, houses and other things. They built and traded these objects made out of natural resources to other countries, which were lacking these resources, where people of the upper and middle class were able to purchase them. The rarity of silk gave China a big advantage in the trading industry. China was able to create tablecloths and tapestries out of silk and traded them for very good prices because of the high value of silk in the world at that time. These rare goods were only people in the wealthy upper class. (Brook, 79-82, 120-121)

Besides these material objects, China and Southeast Asia traded non-material things like ideas and religions. Through the Spice Trade and other local trade routes, Southeast Asia and parts of China adopted Buddhism. Traders from the Middle East who stopped by or traded with Southeast Asia and parts of China spread Buddhism to the regions. Ever since, many parts of Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, have been predominantly Muslim. Although religion was one of the things traded between the two regions, politics was also traded on a large part. The idea of legalism was brought to Southeast Asia from China. (Wickberg, 162-163, 167)

The trade between China and the United States is different from that of Southeast Asia and China bec

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