Zheng He (1371–1433 or 1435) was a Chinese admiral and explorer who led several voyages around the Indian Ocean. Scholars have often wondered how history might have been different if the first Portuguese explorers to round the tip of Africa and move into the Indian Ocean had met up with t...
Zheng He Zheng He Fleet Admiral Specialty Exploration Born 1371 Kunyang, Yunnan, China Died 1433 (around age 61–62) At sea Nationality Chinese Zheng He was an ethnically Muslim Chinese figure of the Ming Dynasty, which ruled China for 276 years between the 1368 and 1644. Zheng He might ...
Admiral Zheng He made seven frequent voyages to Malabar between 1405 and 1433 with marvellous fleet of 317 ships, almost 30,000 people. During the seventh voyage, he died in Calicut, and the mosque, Cheenedathu Palli, adorns tomb of Chinese Sheikh, where people irrespective of religion used ...
Zheng He – Muslim, admiral, explorer, eunuch – was a maritime Chinese Marco Polo, making numerous voyages between China and Africa in the 15th century. On at least one occasion he sailed home with a giraffe as tribute for the emperor, who decided it must be aqilin, a myth...
the Chinese Muslim admiral of the 15th century. Blue-robed oarsman enacted seafarers travelling between Southeast Asia and the coast of Fujian, in southern China. Their oars became sails, painted with the "treasure ships" of Zheng He who reached Africa in the Ming Dynasty. On this occasion, ...
Zheng He, originally named Ma He, was born into a Muslim family just beyond the borders of China (later Yunnan Province in the southwestern part of China) in 1371. His ancestors were the Arabian immigrated into China during the Tang and Song dynasties (618-1279). When he was still young...
Menzies has been described as a“pseudo(伪)-historian" by critics, who say his ideas are not based on historical facts.Menzies says that the Chinese map, found in a bookstore and created in the 18th century, is regarded as the work of Chinese admiral Zheng He and shows a detailed map ...
The report, which was carried by newspapers around the world, claims that the coin provides evidence that the famous Chinese Admiral Zheng He reached East Africa years before the European explorers. Ming Dynasty yongle tongbao coin discovered in East Africa A joint expedition led by Chapurukha Ku...
In the year 1404, when Zheng He was 33 years old, the new emperor Yongle became ruler of China. Emperor Yongle took aliking to Zheng He because of his skills and talents. Yongle decided to sponsor amazing voyages of exploration by sea, and he made Zheng He the admiral in charge of lea...
Other stories also tell of the qilin as more earthly creature. According to theHistory of Ming(明史), Bengala envoys gifted a “qilin” to Emperor Yongle in 1414. Zheng He, a Chinese admiral and diplomat, also brought home the same species from his travels to Somalia. Upon seeing these ...