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Zheng He

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Zheng He

Life
- Bornt - 1371-1372
  - Mother - Weng
  - Chinese diplomat
    - He was a young officer
    - Zheng He was a young man of great skill
    - He commanded the majority of expeditions of overseas in the epoch of the emperor Yongle
      - His first trip did it in 1405
      - After the emperor's change in 1424, the expeditions were suspended and Zheng did not return to make a new trip until 1431
      - 7 expeditions
  - DIed - 1435
  - Father - Ma Haiji
    - Son of a Muslim who had peregrinated to the Mecca
  - Really name Ma He
Expeditions
- 1
  - 1405
    - 317 ships
      - First visit to Champa
        The also visited Java
        Finally they arrived to Calicut
- 2
  - 1407
    - Yongle ordered to organize an expedition
      - It is not clear if Zheng He participated in this second voyage
        Or only Wang Jinghong and Hou Xian
        Siam, Java, Deli, Ahceh, Cochin and Calicut
- 3
  - 1409
    - 1412
    - 48 ships
      - Wang Jinghong and Hou Xian
        Quilon, Cochin y Calicut
- 4
  - 1414
    - 63 ships
      - Zheng He VS Sumatra
        Zheng He Win
        looking for lands of the India and the Maldives Islands
- 5
  - 1416
    - Yongle ordered Zheng He prepare a new trip
- 6
  - 1421
    - The fleet was divided into Semudera
      - Zhou Man led the main fleet to Aden and Africa
        Zheng He returned to China
        The main fleet did not return until a year later
- 7
  - 300 ships
    - The fleet was divided
      - Africa
      - ?
      - It would be his last trip
        In 1449 the Mongols arrived China, coming to kidnap the Emperor