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Around this time, things started to be clearer. War itself along with trade was a mixture of disaster and it only made more problems for us. Diasporic Communities were full of merchants like me and we helped set up communities where cultural traditions were shared and spread throughout into indigenous culture. An example can be the Jewish communities in the Mediterranean, Indian Ocean Basin, or along the Silk Roads. When I was traveling from China into the India Ocean Route, another fellow merchant of mine gave me a book and it detailed one of the greatest travelers in our time, Marco Polo. He was born in Italy and the whole family revolved of traders. His father, along with two brothers, moved about four years, living and trading everywhere

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