MMW 13 Chapter Notes - Chapter Article Notes: Samudera Pasai Sultanate, Eunuch, Taoism
14 Apr 2017
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Mmw 13 textbook notes the overall survey of the ocean"s shores & cheng ho: Ming maritime expeditions & inscription to the goddess. Stimulate chinese economy, strengthen commercial position in south asia. Theories that the chinese reached the new world, but it is doubted: furthest they sailed was east africa. After the emperor"s death, the expeditions stopped: cost too high, re-emergence of conservative confucian ideas. When the son grew older, he plotted to gain the throne, and murdered the fisherman and took his place. The fisherman"s son took the people of the kingdom to a neighboring area and started their own kingdom, returning occasionally to attack and try to avenge his father: zheng he came and killed him. Zheng he ordered to go there and flatter the king, bestowing gifts and honors upon him and his generals. Country full of muslims, non-chinese, zhedis, geling, and hindus. King sent a variety of different exotic animals to the emperor.
