The Age of Sea Empires
Zheng He's fleets turn back and Portuguese ships reach India and Malacca; Spain links the world with the Manila galleons; the Atlantic slave trade; the Dutch and English companies and cosmopolitan Ayutthaya; British India and the Opium Wars; then Siam between British Burma and Malaya and French Indochina: the Bowring Treaty of 1855, the crisis of 1893 and the treaties of 1904, 1907 and 1909, with both the 'lost territories' and the 'Siam Mapped' views; and the British Empire at its 1920 peak. Episode 12 of the World Empires series.
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