The role of the first European scholars and Christian missionaries in distributing modern knowledge in Eastern Asia in the XVI-XVII century (the case of Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam)

The article focuses on the first contacts of the Europeans - especially missionaries -with the peoples of East Asia in the early modem period of modem history and their role in spreading scientific knowledge and a new religion - Christianity in such countries as Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam. These topics may be of great interest to orientalists since their study allows us to see the little-known details of the contacts of the East and West at that time in a new light.