From China to Calicut

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The year is 1342 and I am traveling to Calicut from China because I have heard of its prosperous spice and cotton trade along the Indian Ocean from Ibn Battuta’s travels. I hope to profit from the laws that I heard were favorable to merchants; boy I hope what they say is true. In my travels, I met people that said the Calicut government protected merchants from theft, taxed them at low rates, and treated all groups equally! I have studied so much about monsoon winds because I know it will help when I exchange my Indian goods. I am planning on staying for about six months until the monsoons are predicted to change paths and then I am heading back eastward towards my home to trade my goods.

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