Who Is Zhau Rugua's Quest For Knowledge?

The worlds filled with thousands and thousands of mysteries. We as a race seek to find these mysteries and make them known to people. This yearning for knowledge of the unknown and the unexplainable is what cause the world to be brought into the era it is in. Some on their quest to knowledge have created books, articles, music, laws, and many other things that would change the world, socially and economically. This led to many explorations and discoveries beyond anyone’s imagination. The constant need for knowledge evolved so quickly in so little time.
The Chinese had a very beautiful view on the world, so during the age of the southern song, they went on extensive over sea trades, especially in the Indian Ocean. China was the world leader in almost everything, especially naval technology, no other culture or kingdom proved their ships to be as seaworthy. They traveled all along the Arabian Peninsula but did the majority of their trading in the posts of Southeast Asia and India. In the thirteenth century a man named Zhau Rugua was the inspector of foreign trade for the province of Fujian in South China, his real job was to collect tariffs on imported goods, but instead he made a very descriptive catalog of not only the goods they …show more content…
One of these evidences is the number amounts of how many times, he would send his ships on expeditions to and fro to make trades and connections. The Chinese were high advanced in naval technology so created ships sometimes bigger than football fields and traveled all in the Indian sea. He made very diplomatic moves and these things consisted of trading and treating the people good, this cause the countries to have be connected with him. We know that these trades’ routes existed because Zheng He was using well established trade routes to the Arabian Peninsula that had dated back to the Han