what is significant about zheng he's fleet of ships
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Biography Fleet of Treasure Ships. Zheng He commanded a large fleet of ships. His first voyage is estimated to have had over 200 total ships and nearly 28,000 men. Some of the ships were large treasure ships estimated to be over 400 feet long and 170 feet wide. That's longer than a football field!
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- (Answer #1). The Mediterranean Sea was important to the expansion of the Roman Empire because of the fact that it was one of the main trade links used between all the different continents and regions of the Roman Empire.
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- Which ship was the largest in the first fleet? This depends on what is meant by largest. With a weight of 540 tones, the heaviest ship in the First Fleet was the naval vessel, Sirius. It was believed to be about 100ft lo…ng and 32 ft at the beam (its widest point). The largest of the transport ships was Alexander, weighing in at 452 tons and being 114 ft long and 31 ft at the beam.
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- The Santa Maria, the flagship of Columbus' fleet, was a carrack —a merchant ship of between 400 and 600 tons, 75 feet (23 m) long, with a beam of 25 feet (7.6 m), allowing it to carry more people and cargo.
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African History Flashcards Mali's decline happened because of the death of Mansa Musa, Berber nomads attacked the trade routes, and Songhai stopped paying taxes to the government. Songhai Definition: The greatest trade empire of west Africa. Significance to History: The Songhai empire lasted from 1400-1600 ce. Some major cities of Songhai were Gao and Timbuktu. Muslims leaders spread religion and invited scholars to study in the empire. Their primary religion was Islam. They were a really big trading empire.
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How does Chinaâs first aircraft carrier stack up? When one considers the respective capabilities of aircraft carriers, tonnage and deck-side size are important indicators for the amount of stores, munitions, and aircraft a carrier can bring to a fight. The Liaoning is by no means a small ship, but it is far from the largest or most capable carrier in the Asia-Pacific.
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Ferdinand Magellan He had to be different. Magellan took his five ships, led by the Trinidad, west instead of east. In the process, he discovered a new route through the Panama Canal, which shortened travel times to Asia considerably. In the process, he also discovered the Pacific Ocean, which he named after his daughter. While in the Orient, Magellan traded with the Chinese for spices, silk, and small plastic toys which he could bring back to Europe and sell at huge profits.
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China's Age of Invention Printing, paper money, porcelain, tea, restaurants, gunpowder, the compass—the number of things that Chinese of the Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1280) gave to the world is mind-boggling. This vibrant period in Chinese history was marked by economic prosperity and remarkable technological innovation.rinting, paper money, porcelain, tea, restaurants, gunpowder, the compass—the number of things that Chinese of the Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1280) gave to the world is mind-boggling. This vibrant period in Chinese history was marked by economic prosperity and remarkable technological innovation.
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Warship Yamato, Largest LEGO Ship Ever Built The LEGO warship is built at a scale of 1/40, weighs over 150 kilograms, measures 6.6 meters from bow to stern and is 1 meter wide at the widest point of the ship. Jumpei Mitsui finished the LEGO Yamato on April 9, 2009 and he deserves our congratulations. Well done my friend.
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- China has the most ships in the world if you count all the smaller ships rather than principle combat vessels. Currently China has 138 major combat vessels compared to the U.S … .'s 286.Total Chinese vessels number at 962.i there, From my research, the British Navy currently have 139 Navy Ships.
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- Follow Business Insider: The US Navy is less than a year away from adding the most expensive warship in history to its fleet, the $13 billion USS Gerald Ford. The USS Ford, the lead ship of the new Ford-class aircraft-carrier series, is expected to join the US Navy by February 2016, according to CNN.
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Show of Power The Voyages. The Ming Emperor wanted Zheng He to undertake a the first of many voyages in 1405 to modern-day Vietnam, Thailand, Java, and parts of Indian and Sri Lanka. Amazingly, this enormous fleet consisted of 62 Capitol Ships and 238 smaller ships with a crew compliment of 27,800 officers and men.
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Economic history of China before 1912 Emperor Taizong of Tang, the second ruler of the dynasty, is regarded as one of the greatest rulers in Chinese history. Under his rule, China progressed rapidly from the ruins of a civil war to a prosperous and powerful nation.
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Mongol Conquest of Yuan Dynasty Mongol Conquest of Yuan Dynasty. The mighty Mongolian Empire was founded by Tiemuzhen, who initially unified all tribes of the Mongolian minority and was honored as Genghis Khan (meaning the ruler of the world). Since then, the Genghis Khan led his invincible army to start a large-scale offensive into the outside World. The first military target was Xixia which was located in the middle and western areas of China and in 1205, 1207 and 1209, the Mongolian army launched three massive invasions. Under such military threat, the helpless Xixia was forced to pay tributes to the Mongol and sue for peace.
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ZHENG HE (1371-1435): ADMIRAL OF THE TREASURE SHIPS Zheng He’s Voyages to the Western Sea: Zheng He onboard his Treasure Ship. Courtesy of Cultural China. At their ports of call, they actively preached Islam, established Chinese Muslim communities, and built mosques.
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- 1 Due to the inclusion of the card TEAM Chonindo with Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties (Japanese) and the Portuguese card TEAM Fish Market, the two civilizations are very difficult to defeat on maps featuring water if working together.he Japanese are an East Asian civilization that controls the region of Japan and other parts of Asia in the far-east. They are a major civilization featured in the Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties expansion.
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9c. Han Dynasty â Cultural Heights The 7,000-mile Silk Road flourished during the Han dynasty, allowing trade between China and India. The major achievements of the early Han dynasty revolve around the first emperor to reign under the Mandate of Heaven, Wu Ti. Emperors were under heaven's rule according to the mandate.
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TR's Big Stick: The Great White Fleet's Voyage A big stick indeed -- peace through strength, a later generation would call it -- but the Great White Fleet also garnered an extraordinary amount of good will for the U.S., Nofi added, a different kind of publicity payoff. The fleet generated positive buzz; its arrival in a port of call was good PR for the port.
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- China: The Ming (1368-1644) and the Qing (1644-1912) 1  China has outstanding naval capacity in the early 1400s (see the discussion of the Ming voyages in the unit Ming Voyages: 1405-1433).
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Songhai Empire (ca. 1375-1591) The Songhai Empire was the largest and last of the three major pre-colonial empires to emerge in West Africa. From its capital at Gao on the Niger River, Songhai expanded in all directions until it stretched from the Atlantic Ocean (modern Senegal and Gambia) to what is now Northwest Nigeria and central Niger.ao, Songhai’s capital, which remains to this day a small Niger River trading center, was home to the famous Goa Mosque and the Tomb of Askia, the most important of the Songhai emperors. The cities of Timbuktu and Djenne were the other major cultural and commercial centers of the empire.
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6 Famous Pirate Ships Somali pirates, who wield automatic weapons and attack unsuspecting victims from speedboats, are changing the way we think about pirates and pirate ships. While the most successful captains in pirate lore commanded ships that were smaller, faster, and less ornate than Disney's fictitious Black Pearl, Blackbeard didn't make his fortune in a rowboat either. Here's a look at six of the more famous pirate ships in history. 1. Adventure Galley
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- Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen said has found the wreck of the WWII Japanese battleship Musashi more than 70 years after U.S. forces sank it in the Sibuyan Sea off the Philippines. One of the world’s largest and most technologically advanced battleships, the Musashi weighted 73,000 tons fully loaded.
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Goods of the Silk Road Not only silk: other trading goods of the Silk Road. The goods carried on the Silk Road moved basically from the East to the West. Judging by the road’s name silk was the main commodity in the list. Thanks to its light weight, compactness, enormous demand and high price it was ideal for trade and long-distance transportation. In the Middle Ages the Venetian merchant Marco Polo named the caravan routes silk roads. But it was a German researcher Ferdinand Richthofen who coined the term the Great Silk Road in his fundamental work, “China”, in 1877.
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- By today’s standards, building 2,710 ships of any size or complexity in less than five years seems highly improbable. Today, the great fleet of Liberty Ships is all but gone, but the memory of those famed ships and their significant contribution to America's wartime effort during World War II remains.However, in the final analysis, Libertys’ Legacy is not just about the ships.y today’s standards, building 2,710 ships of any size or complexity in less than five years seems highly improbable. Today, the great fleet of Liberty Ships is all but gone, but the memory of those famed ships and their significant contribution to America's wartime effort during World War II remains.
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- Tang and Song dynasties, China experienced an era of prosperity and technological innovation. Chinese inventions from this period, such as printing, gunpowder, and the compass, changed history. •Tang Taizong •Wu Zhao • movable type •gentry 1 SETTING THE STAGEAfter the Han Dynasty collapsed in A.D. 220, no emperor was strong enough to hold China together.
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China's Age of Invention Accompanying the invention of the compass were other inventions, such as the development of new types of locks along the canals. The Chinese previously had invented the sternpost rudder, actually in the Han Dynasty, but the sternpost rudder was very, very important for controlling a vessel.rinting, paper money, porcelain, tea, restaurants, gunpowder, the compass—the number of things that Chinese of the Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1280) gave to the world is mind-boggling. This vibrant period in Chinese history was marked by economic prosperity and remarkable technological innovation.