Click on the title above to access the 8-page write up on our research process, and update to our proposal and annotated bibliography from the topic proposal document!
To cut our (8-paged) long story short...
1) Sea Cucumber is used as a trade commodity due to its medicinal properties
2) Enabled trade between natives in the Malay world and Japan with China
3) Mostly native trade but colonial powers (as usual) wanted to be involved since they saw the appeal of it