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Early-Modern Period[edit]
The Early Modern Period saw the convergence of Cartographical techniques across Eurasia, and the exchange of mercantile mapping techniques via the Indian Ocean.

In the early seventeenth century, the Selden map was created by a Chinese cartographer. Though the details of this maps exact date of creation are to be determined, historians have put its date of creation around 1620. This maps significance draws from historical misconceptions of East Asian cartography, the main one being that East Asians didn't do cartography until Europeans arrived. The maps depiction of trading routes, a compass rose, and scale bar points to the culmination of many map-making techniques incorporated into Chinese mercantile cartography.

In 1689 representatives of the Russian Empire and Qing Dynasty met near the border town of Nerchinsk, which was near the disputed border of the two powers, in eastern Siberia. The two parties, with the Qing negotiation party bringing Jesuits as intermediaries, managed to work a treaty which placed the Amur River as the border between the Eurasian powers, and opened up trading relations between the two. This treaties significance draws from the interaction between the two sides,and the intermediaries who were drawn from a wide variety of nationalities.