the largest ships in the world and twenty seven thousand men‚ sailing to more than thirty countries around the Indian Ocean and the South China seas‚ including Sri Lanka‚ India‚ Indonesia‚ Malaysia‚ Vietnam‚ Kenya and Tanzania. Zheng He led seven voyages with the idea to explore and not conquer. However‚ Zheng He was not always known as China’s greatest seafaring explorer he became it. It began in China’s Yunnan province‚ for ten years he had grown and lived there until 1382 when three hundred thousand
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bartolomeu dias Early Life Why on earth would a person sail around the southernmost tip of Africa without modern sailing technology such as GPS? Bartolomeu Dias was such a person to accomplish his great voyage around the Cape of Good Hope. He was born in Portugal around 1450 and was a Portuguese navigator and explorer and was known as the first European who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa and reached the Cape of Good Hope. Bartolomeu Dias’ achievement had ultimately led to expansion
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a leader of the Renaissance and a benefactor to modern science. The results of his voyage around the globe were such that the average person living during the Renaissance re-thought their paradigms of the world surrounding them‚ even know most scholars and other educated types knew that in fact‚ the world was round in shape. Ferdinand‚ however‚ proved it. Thus he lays claim to having circumnavigated the first voyage around the world. Born 1480 to lesser nobles living near Vila Real in northern Portugal
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Sinbad After reading these stories I cannot decide if Sinbad is the luckiest or unluckiest guy in the world. One thing I do know is that he is an insane to keep repeating his actions and expecting a different outcome. In his first voyage starts afterSinbad squandered the money left to him by his father. He sells the few things he has left and goes to sea to repair his fortune. He sets ashore on what appears to be an island‚ but is in fact a whale. Realizing the mistake he warms the men to
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on Portuguese exploits into Africa. Northrups ’ specificity and break-up into two regions gave great detail and painted a better picture of relations between the African people and the Portuguese. Domingues‚ Franciso Contente. "Vasco da Gama ’s Voyage: Myths and Realities in Maritime History."Portuguese Studies 19‚ no. 1 (2003): 1-8. In this article‚ Domingues outlines some of the myths that surround Vasco da Gama ’s exploration. Can we be sure of what sort of ship Gama sailed to India in? What
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Cristopher Columbus And His Great Voyages By Chino Gambino Cristopher Columbus was probably one of the greatest explorers of all time. His accomplishments are extra ordinary. Everyone knows that he came to find The New World‚ but theres much much more that he’s done than that. Christopher columbus was born in Genoa‚ Italy in fouteen fifty-one. As a child he recieced little schooling‚ and the schooling he got was less than satisfactory. He grew with a real education and because of this
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Even though‚ his various voyages were helpful‚ he did not accomplish what he wanted to do since he did not reach Asia. Furthermore‚ he has gained land for his country since the Eastern coast of Canada was still not developed by Native Americans. Even though John Cabot did not go back to his country after his second voyage‚ he was honored with a university (John Cabot University) and a statue of him in the port of Bristol
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philosophical‚ and scientific thought of Swift’s time which has resisted any single definition of meaning for nearly three centuries. Written in the form of a travel journal‚ Gulliver’s Travels is the fictional account of four extraordinary voyages made by Lemuel Gulliver‚ a physician who signs on to serve as a ship’s surgeon when he is unable to provide his family with a sufficient income in London. After being shipwrecked Gulliver first arrives at Lilliput‚ an island whose inhabitants are
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During the course of Christopher Columbus and the Spaniards four voyages they encountered many different indigenous groups of people. Throughout the four different voyages‚ his interactions between different groups had changed each time. Columbus trying to find a direct passage to Asia‚ accidently stumbled upon a group he called “Indians”. From the year 1492 until the year 1503 Columbus had made four voyages between what he thought was India‚ turning out to be America‚ and Spain. During this time
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“I have just completed a forty-two-day voyage around my room. The fascinating observations I made and the endless pleasures I experienced along the way made me wish to share them with the public… Be so good as to accompany me on my voyage.” Xavier de Maistre Renee L. Winter University of Calgary Word count: 2044 Abstract This paper looks at the artistic movement known as Rococo in France after the death of Louis XIV. Artwork by France’s Jean-Antoine Watteau‚ and Jean-Antoine Fragonard
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