Explain ONE similarity between trade in the Indian Ocean networks before the arrival of the Portuguese and the trade AFTER their arrival c. 1450-1750

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germany had to pay all damages related to the war.

and i think

germany had to take sole responsibility for the war.

well the fact it is basically a peninsula allowed trade to come from many places, thus allowing cultural diffusion to take place. india has seasonal monsoons that merchants travel back and forth from india using the monsoons wind patterns