What Was The First Voyage Of Zheng He

Zheng He was born in 1371, Kunyang Yunnan province, China and died in 1433, Calicut, now Kozhikode. He was an admiral, explorer, eunuch, diplomat, and trader, whose adventures brought great wealth and riches to China and spread its religions and influences across Southeast Asia, Persia, Arabia, Africa and India. He was always remembered for his greatness and his leadership in the expeditions and adventures he made. He made a whooping number of SEVEN voyages, each aiming extend Chinese maritime and establish trade across all these places.

First Voyage: “He first set sail in 1405, commanding 62 ships and 27,800 men. The fleet visited Champa, Siam, Malacca and Java; then through the Indian Ocean to Calicut and Ceylon (Sri Lanka).” Zheng He returned

After stopping at the principal ports of Asia and establish a whole lot of trade routes, he proceeded westward from India to Hormuz, again. A detachment of the fleet cruised southward down the Arabian coast from India, visiting Djofar and Aden,” this time not being directly captained by Zheng He, but he was still the commander of the entire mission. “A Chinese mission also visited Mecca and continued to Egypt. The fleet visited Brava and Malindi and almost reached the Mozambique Channel.” This meant that Zheng He managed to extend his influence all the way till Africa as well! “On his return to China in 1415, Zheng He brought the envoys of more than 30 states of South and Southeast Asia to pay homage to the Chinese emperor.” He had also established small towns in Africa and the west side as well, meaning that almost the whole world was going to be impacted by Zheng He’s courageous and numerous explorations. In these four expeditions, Zheng He had already visited all the places he was planning to and after this point, all his voyages consisted of his revisiting all the places. Also, he was amazed by the locations he had already seen and probably wished to stick to those and help those countries as much as

Again he visited Southeast Asia, India, Arabia, and Africa.

Seventh Voyage: “Zheng He’s seventh and final voyage left China in the winter of 1431, visiting the states of Southeast Asia, the coast of India, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the east coast of Africa. He died in Calicut in the spring of 1433, and the fleet returned to China that summer. Zheng He led China to become the superpower of the Indian Ocean, considered to be “the world's most important crossroads of trade”, in the 15th century.” His impact was huge as the places he had visited in his life were going to be visited by many other countries in the near future, resulting in the fact that a lot of other explorers carried on the work Zheng He had nearly