Adventures of Zheng He tells a story of a treasure fleet led by Zheng He. It was made up of three hundred seventy of 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
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Ming sent out 7 gigantic voyages under Zheng He. Ming admiral did not send out people to search for trade‚ but to display China’s might to the world. They wanted the world to recognize them‚ and to bring back precious valuables. We‚ the Minister of Revenue think that Zheng He’s voyages should be stopped because they are greatly unprofitable. Firstly‚ Zheng He’s voyages are greatly unbeneficial‚ and in the modern world‚ this can lead towards being bankrupt. Zheng He’s voyages were in total composed
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HH1002 Final Paper Submission Why did the Ming dynasty decide on ceasing Zheng He ’s maritime voyages? The cessation of Zheng He’s maritime voyages by the Ming dynasty is multi-faceted. Each facet can be broadly classified as the political factors‚ economic factors and defence factors. Nevertheless‚ each reason is interdependent on one another which led the Ming dynasty to eventually terminate Zheng He’s voyages. On the other hand‚ hypothetically it may be asserted that China could have
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contributions they made was the exploration throughout the world. During the 1400s‚ Emperor Yongle commands Zheng He for an important mission. Yongle wants to ensure that his inheritance of emperor was pure and secure‚ and he wants to expand Chinese interaction with foreign countries. Thus‚ Zheng He led a fleet of over two hundred ships to accomplish his mission. Total of seven times did Zheng He explored towards the West before the end of it. However‚ we don’t know the actual reason why Emperor Tingle
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Davis Columbus and Zheng He: A Comparative History Zheng He. Zheng He was born in the year of 1371. He was born in a small village which he stayed with his family. The first 10 years of Zheng He’s life were spent in what is now China’s Hunan province. Everything was going good until one day a group of tribes men came and raded the village which Zheng He and his family resided in. This group of tribes men were known as “TheMing”. On this day‚ Zheng He witnessed his father getting
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Whether it be revolutionary technology‚ or a never before seen level of determination‚ the Ming’s voyages would alter the course of history forever and begin to supplant the importance of naval dominance. Over a period of 28 years‚ Ming commander Zheng He led a series of conquests that would be crucial in expanding China’s borders and revolutionizing maritime trade and exploration until the days of Christopher Columbus. In 1405 AD‚ a cunning new Chinese admiral assumed command of
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Western Europe established the first modern global networks‚ but it was not because their economies were much more advanced than others. Europe looked up to places like India‚ where Vasco Da Gama showed his country’s (Portugal) inferiority once he noticed how wealthy the Indian king was. Islamic Empires such as the Ottomans conquered Constantinople closing all trade routes from Europe to Asia‚ forcing Europe to alter their routes. Also‚ Europe did not compare to China‚ who had a great explorer that
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Zheng He sailed the oceans for the Chinese Empire during the early fifteenth century. (Zheng) He took seven voyages during his tenure‚ as admiral of the Chinese naval power. Suddenly‚ in the year of 1433‚ all expeditions came to a halt and the ships were burnt until they no longer existed along with most documentation of these voyages. Although some historians‚ like Needham‚ argue that the new outbreak of Confucianism among the common people changed the thought process of the Chinese and their opinion
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Castration was typically carried out on the soon-to-be eunuch without his consent in order that he might perform a specific social function; this was common in many societies. The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the 21st century BC.[1][2] Over the millennia since‚ they have performed a wide variety of functions in many different cultures: courtiers or equivalent domestics‚ treble singers‚ religious specialists‚ government officials
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Chapter Twenty-Two 1. Identify the most significant land and sea routes in the fourteenth century. What societies tended to control and profit from these routes? The most significant routes were the Silk Road & sea lanes in the Indian Ocean. With the silk road‚ Eurasia & west Africa profited while in the sealanes‚ southeast Asia‚ India‚ Arabia‚ Africa‚ China‚ Japan‚ & Africa profited. 2. What was the role of religion in the cultural interactions of this era? Which religion had the greater
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