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Katie Chen
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Origins
1371 Born 0D+H
Central Asian Muslim
Son of a rural officialin the Mongol
Province Yunnan
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Working His Way Up
1382 taken captive by aChinese Armyoverthrowing theMongols
Became one of the3ULQFHRI
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China in the 15th Century
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Why?
Business
Exploration
Diplomacy Peacekeeping
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Largest wooden ships
every launched 400 feet long
120 feet across
9 masts
50,000 feet2 deck
3000 ton waterdisplacement
6ZLPPLQJ'UDJRQV 300 vessels + 30,000 sailors
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Trade Items and Gifts
Flaunt &KLQDVSURVSHULW\ Traded and gifted:
Silk
Ceramics
Copper coins Gold
Silverware
In exchange for: Spices
Fragrant woods
Gems
Unique animals
Textiles
Minerals
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Knowledge
7KH2YHUDOO6XUYH\RIWKH2FHDQ6KRUHVpublished by Ma Huan
Retrieved vast amounts
of knowledge from thevoyages: Spices + cooking styles
New methods 10 different uses of the
coconut Discovered strange bird
species
New trade items
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Knowledge
Explored cultural differences
Funeral + marriage rites domestic + public architecture
religious beliefs
languages and dialects commercial practices
strengths and weaknesses of government
-- Ma Huan
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Defense
To get to the throne, Emperor Yongle
overthrew his nephew
His nephew was rumored to have escaped
overseas
To keep him from retaliating, Yongle sent
Zheng He to try to find and keep an eye on
him
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Map of the Seven Voyages
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1. 1405-1407
Champa Java
Palembang
Malacca
Aru Samudera
Lambri
Ceylon
Kollam Cochin
Calicut
1407 Strait of Malacca
Fought and defeated theinfamous Cantonese pirate,
ChenZuyi Brought him back to China for
execution
Peace restored in the Malacca
strait
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2. 1407 - 1409
Champa
Java
Siam
Cochin
Ceylon
Returned Indian and Sumatran
foreign ambassadors who had
traveled to China
(VWDEOLVKHG&KLQDVWUDGHOLQNVin the Indian Ocean
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3. 1409 - 1411
Champa
Java
Malacca
Sumatra
Ceylon
Quilon
Cochin
Calicut
Siam
Lambri Kayal
Coimbatore
Puttanpur
1411 single overseas land
battle of the seven voyages
Zheng He intervened in an
already ongoing war between
Hindu Tamils in the north and
two Sinhalese Buddhist realms
in the center and South
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4. 1413 - 1415
Champa
Java
Palembang
Malacca
Sumatra Ceylon
Cochin
Calicut
Kayal Pahang
Kelantan
Aru
Lambri
Hormuz
Maldives
Mogadishu
Barawa
Malindi
Aden
Muscat
Dhofar
First voyage to travel
beyond India and
cross the Arabian
Sea
18 states sent tribute
and envoys to China
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5. 1417 - 1419
Champa
Pahang
Java
Malacca Samudera
Lambri
Ceylon
Sharwayn
Cochin
Calicut
Hormuz
Maldives Mogadishu
Barawa
Malindi
Aden
First visit to Africa
Many African
rulers sent
gifts to theemperor
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6. 1432 - 1422
Hormuz
East Africa
Countries on
the Arabian
Peninsula
&RQWLQXHVVKXWWOHGLSORPDF\EULQJLQJnew diplomats to China
and sending others back
who had stayed in China
for several years
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7. 1431 - 1433
Champa
Java
Palembang
Malacca
Sumatra
Ceylon
Calicut
Fengtu
Zheng He was presumably
buried at sea after this final
voyage
6LQEDGinspiration?
Arab classic
6HYHQ9R\DJHVof Sinbad the6DLORU
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:K\+DYHQW:H+HDUGRIZheng He?
Relatively unknown, despite having travelled
way before the well-known European
voyagers
1492 Columbus
1498 Vasco da Gama
1519 Magellan
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:K\+DYHQW:H+HDUGRIZheng He?
Rulers succeeding Zhu Di banned voyages Too costly
Culture shift
- Saw innovation and change as a threat to orderlygovernment
Records destroyed in battle or by Chinesepoliticians
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Influence
([SDQGHG&KLQDVknowledge of the world
Opened new trade routes
Established new relationswith rulers overseas
Completed a completelyunprecedentedexpedition over twodecades
Memorable historicalfigure of the MingDynasty