How did traders and explorers communicate with other cultures

>>3161273
Trade languages.

And intrepreters.

I know that when the Portuguese first came into India they communicated using arab, that was kind of a lingua franca in that region in the 1500s.

But about when they and the spanish first came to America I have no idea, besides knowing that some native women married the spanish and became guides and translators for them.

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>>3161273
Like stated before, common languages have existed since we learned to write things down. Back then though people tended to communicate a bit more with this. It accurately conveyed all of your desires and intention no matter what language you spoke.

>>3161273
>The Carthaginians tell us that they trade with a race of men who live in a part of Libya beyond the Pillars of Herakles. On reaching this country, they unload their goods, arrange them tidily along the beach, and then, returning to their boats, raise a smoke. Seeing the smoke, the natives come down to the beach, place on the ground a certain quantity of gold in exchange for the goods, and go off again to a distance. The Carthaginians then come ashore and take a look at the gold; and if they think it presents a fair price for their wares, they collect it and go away; if, on the other hand, it seems too little, they go back aboard and wait, and the natives come and add to the gold until they are satisfied. There is perfect honesty on both sides; the Carthaginians never touch the gold until it equals in value what they have offered for sale, and the natives never touch the goods until the gold has been taken away.
—Herodotus of Halicarnassus, [12]

They would find interpreters and leave a bunch of expendable apprentices behind to learn the language and meet them again when they return. These apprentices could then become merchants that specialize in 1 trade route like Turkey traders.

>>3161412
>There is perfect honesty on both sides
must have been pretty far north

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>>3161412
>romans annihilated these honest merchants

Disgusting.

>>3161412
Why did Carthaginians mix with Iberians and Sards but avoided even just meeting negroes?

>>3161412
>Be Carthaginian
>usually set up several emporiums and cities in every region you trade with
>go to West Africa
>avoid coming out of the ship to meet the natives

F A T H E R O F L I E S

>>3161412
That tale is actually a mythological trope that Herodotus passed off as history.

Y'see, incomunicability, to ancient Greeks, was something that could happen for real only between a man and a god. Having merchants trade with far-off natives that take and give without being seen is just a way to "humanised" it.

>>3161448
We'll never have an honest merchant again. Fucking Romans

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>>3161273
Get a few locals to join you. You can point at stuff and just repeat it until they do. Form a kind of pidgin language that bridges yours with theirs. If they stick with your voyage, eventually they will catch on. Return back to the native land and you got yourself a full fledged translator. Not full proof but I'm sure it worked. Some people had crazy ass lives thanks to being transported around the world.

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>>3162721
Was hasekura the original founder of Nazism?????????

>>3161309
>I know that when the Portuguese first came into India they communicated using arab

[citation needed]