As Europe and Asia continue in their expansion of land and power, they develop trade routes to efficiently import and export a variety of products. These trade routes, like the Silk Road or the Indian Ocean, provided many countries with products they wouldn’t have had access to in their own region. As the world began to embrace trade, it had an effect on many of its clients. Countries importing foreign weaponry begin to conquer neighboring countries and many nations begin to prosper, seeing an improvement in many of their inhabitants' lives. There are outliers to this case though, with certain countries being adamant on preserving their own cultural identity and outwardly denying many of such trade deals, but they are both few in number and