1495 - 1516 (No America)

1496 was a peaceful year for the oceanic civilization. The duke Denis I of Azores wrote (or start writing) this year Crônica do Japão, a large book that offered a résumé of the japaneses "continent" and its outskirts (Ryūkyū, China, Manchuria, Korea, etc...) to the european philosophers. Some terms were changed by Denis himself to make them more understandable to the european civilization. For example, the term "samurai" was changed by "knight", "shogun", by "king", "daimyo", by nobility titles, commonly "duke" or "lord", and the figure of the Tenno (Emperor of Japan) was seen as a kind of Pope (Denis many times referred him as the "Pope in Tokyo").

Another work written by him in cooperation with Hosokawa Masamoto and some japanese philosophers was Historia Regum Nihonniæ, another large work that didn't sum up the culture and geography of Japan, but the history. The main objective was legitimate the access of Ashikaga Yoshizumi to the throne, following the typical european succession laws.

The trade between Europe and Asia was mainly a monopoly between both Portugal and Japan until some japanese merchants in 1497 started trading with the Catholic Monarchy, and later the chinese finally passed the blockade imposed by Japan and started trading with Europe. Even this was hard, be cause the portuguese and spanish were allies of Japan, and they wanna to preserve their monopoly, and avoid China to break it, so the Emperor Hongzhi saw an oportunity trading with the Kingdom of Fez, giving the Wattasid Dynasty the monopoly of chinese trading.

With the wealth that this monoply gave them, the wattasid felt encouraged enoguh to conquer the rest of the independent principalities of the zone, like the saadi dynasty, and creating the Sultanate of Fez. Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya became the first african in visit Japan as ambassador and foreign head of state. By 1499 the entire Morocco were wattasid.

Another important core of trading was Ireland. In 1501 the japanese outlaw merchants arrived Ireland and started trading with the local clans, making them wealthy and encouraging them to defy the english presence in their island.