How Did Zheng He Returned To China

Zheng He traveled a total of 105,300 miles throughout his seven voyages (Doc A). He began his voyages from Nanjing, China and traveled to Calicut, Hormuz, Malindi, Mogadishu, and Mombasa (Doc A). All of these places were already well established trading ports. Zheng He didn’t find any new land and claim it for China. Because Zheng He did not discover any new land, there isn’t anything to

The author, Robert B. Marks introduces the book, The Origins of the Modern World by introducing the reader to a global narrative of the origins of the modern world starting from 1400 to the present. The book presents the rise of the west as an issue of globalization of Asia,

Zheng he was so compassionate that he had only about 110 people on each ship (Doc.C). The doctor to patient ratio today is about 1 doctor to 400 patients. On Zheng He’s voyages he had as few as 1 doctor to 152 patients, which is amazing compared to our ratio today (Doc.C). While trading and finding new land usually Zheng He would stay at each port for the shortest of 1 year and at the max at 2 years for trade and for the passengers to have a break from the ship (Doc.A).

In order to understand the political motives behind Zheng He’s expedition, it is important to look into the historical background of Emperor Yongle’s reign. Yongle did not inherit the throne from his father Emperor Hongwu. Soon after his father’s death, Yongle, the Prince of Yan at that time, initiated a military rebellion and overthrew his nephew Emperor Jianwen. Because he usurped the throne, Emperor Yongle had a huge urge to suppress rumors and legitimate his rulership during his early years of reign. During the rebellion, Emperor Jianwen disappeared and he was rumored to survive the palace fire and flee overseas. Historians argued that one of the original goals of Zheng He’s

Document 6 Source: Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo, a Venetian merchant who may have worked for the Yuan dynasty, the Mongol rulers of China, late 13th century. This excerpt is a description of Hangzhou, a southern city that was part of the Yuan empire.

The chart under the map on Document A shows that after every stop, they sailed all the way back to Nanjing, China. According to Document A, the two longest explorations consisted of 19,000 miles roundtrip. I feel that these incredibly long voyages were a waste of time and money; they should have just continued to sail through to the next city. Zheng He sailed to a city, gathered whatever he wanted to, and then sailed back only to pass the city he left. This is incredibly ineffective, and illogical in my opinion because this wasted time and money. Referring back to my thesis, Zheng He was definitely not utilizing the maximum potential of his opportunity.

The civilizations of Han dynasty China and the Roman republic both had a similarity in that they utilized the silk road as a major trading route. The silk road was utilized by both of these civilizations to receive needed resources, and exchange others. During the Han dynasty under the rule of Emperor Wu in 138 B.C, their society was often under attack by the nomadic Xiongnu people. Due to this, he sent his emissary Zhang Qian to request aid from distant cultures and there he found the “Dayuan, the Great Ionians”. These people were descendants of Alexander the Great’s army. After this

Marco Polo in China: Interpretive Analysis Although Marco Polo started out as a humble merchant from Venice, he eventually developed a reputation as one of the world’s greatest explorers (“Marco Polo”). He was much more than just a trader however, providing the Western world with detailed accounts of the foreign society that was Medieval China under the Mongol conquest. These accounts would later become invaluable to historians for centuries to come.

When China Ruled the Seas Book Review In the book, When China Ruled the Seas, Levathes tells us about seven voyages made by junk armadas during the Chinese emperor Zhu Di's reign. "Treasure ships" as they were called, were under the command of admiral Zheng He, these ships traded silk, porcelain, and many other fine objects of value. They sailed from India to East Africa, throughout Korea and Japan, and possibly as far as Australia. She believes that China might have been able to create a great colonial realm one hundred years before the Europeans explored and expanded, from China's navy of some three thousand ships.

Have you ever seen a treasure ship larger than a football field? Crazy right? But yet it was accomplish by a man with the name of Zheng He. Many people do not recognize him because all of his records were destroyed, but he was astonishing. If you ask me, I say we should celebrate the voyages of Zheng He. Why? He spent twenty-eight years of his life traveling and traveled one hundred five thousand, three hundred miles in total! He also had enormous ships, crew members, and seven voyages compared to others. Lastly he brought peace and people together from all places, also made sea trade safer.

Should we recognize the voyages of Zheng He? We should recognize them because of the scale, skill, and significance of the journeys taken

Feuds between Siam and Malacca were also alleviated because of Chinese involvement. The voyages of the treasure fleet were not to inhabit foreign lands, but to open up foreign dealings and international relations. Zheng He managed this and even established trading posts in many of the places he stopped at. These trading posts were also used as warehouses to store goods until they could be sold. He also built a chain of dispatch stations the merchants could stop and rest at. The dispatch stations were spaced out so that overnight stays would be easier for travelers and traders. All of this also helped China?s economy by making trades easier for merchants. Chinese authority also spread around the world because many Chinese traders moved out of the country to work in the warehouses.

Asia was the center of trade, business and craft. Many countries tried to find a direct route to Asia, in order to increase trade. Whereas, China decided to uphold isolationism. Its population was one hundred million people in four million miles of square land. China did not want more land, nor more subjects to govern. In fact, China had more people than it can govern. Yongle Emperor sent Zheng He to purchase various spices, goods and conduct trade. Zheng He was a Muslim Chinese eunuch trusted by the

David May 1, 2012 Reading and Discussion Questions: When China Ruled the Seas by Louise Levathes 1. Why are we reading this book in this class? 0 The reason that we are reading, “When China Ruled the Seas”

In 1793, George III of Britain sent a letter to China to verbalize with the Qianlong Emperor. His motivation was to talk about the condition of exchange in the middle of China and England, who at the time had enormously thorough