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When and why did China close its nation borders?

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"The Chinese closed their borders to the outside world in the 15th century AD as a reaction to the increase in foreign merchants, settlers, and religions entering the region at the time.

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The Ming Dynasty who ruled China at the time believed that China did not need to trade with the outside world to improve as it already had all of the resources and materials it would ever need. Furthermore, at the time a merchant was seen as a lowly profession in China as

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they did not produce anything but merely resold the goods of other people. Finally, the Chinese government saw these foreign cultures as a threat to Chinese traditions and heritage and so closed their borders in order to keep Chinese culture pure and unaffected."

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