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 – 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...
Xuande, Zheng He commanded seven expeditions, the first in the year 1405 and the last in 1430, which sailed from China to the west, reaching as far as the Cape of Good Hope. The object of the voyages was to display the glory and 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 ...
The Zheng He training ship, built in the late 1980s, has made extensive long-distance voyages in the past three decades. It set sail from Lushun Harbor in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning province on Oct. 24 for its latest journey. ...
Zheng He (1371-1433), the Chinese Muslim Admiral Courtesy: MuslimHeritage.com and IRFI.com Through his seven voyages of discovery to the West, Zheng He helped transform China into a global power in the fifteenth century. Little did the famous Muslim geographer,Ibn Battutaknow, that ab...
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 ...
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Figure 3:Recent Chinese portrait (2005) of Admiral Zheng He. ( Source). Emperor Yong Le tried to boost his damaged prestige as a usurper by a display of China’s might abroad, sending spectacular fleets on great voyages and by bringing foreign ambassadors to his court. He also put foreign...
Over a period of almost three decades in the early 15th century, Ming China sent out a fleet the likes of which the world had never seen. These enormous treasure junks were commanded by the great admiral,Zheng He. Together, Zheng He and his armada made seven epic voyages from the port ...