Zheng He

find India. When he landed in the Bahamas, he thought he had hit Asia and was content that his voyage was complete. Columbus probably stayed in the Bahamas for a while to replenish his supplies and give his crew a break. He must have assumed because of the tropical weather that he was in India. He returned to Spain never found…

fleet, as it would come to be known and placed his trusted eunuch, Zheng He as his Chief Commander of the fleet. Over the next years, Zheng He and the treasure fleet conducted seven legendary voyages from 1405 – 1433 that brought him all the way from the Chinese port of Nanjing to Brunei, Java, Thailand, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, India, Arabia and finally to the east coast of the African continent. Along those voyages, Zheng He presented goods to other nations such as gold, silver,…

Zheng He was an admiral tasked by the emperor in 1405 to lead a fleet of ships down the coast of China to India. This was the first of seven voyages that would take him a total of 28 years to complete, leading him from the southern tip of China to the western front of Africa. As a result of these voyages, relations were created with other countries, sea routes were secured, and China’s power was asserted over the region. (For example) due to the travels of Zheng He, China received many tributes…

Ying Zheng had a large ambition to rule the land, he was not satisfy just be the king of Qin kingdom, so he keep conquered territories. During that time, there are six other coexisting kingdoms. The leader of each kingdom all proclaimed himself king. Every king wanted to achieve bigger power, have large territory, it depend whether they have the strength. So there always have small fights between kingdoms. Freud in his Civilization and Its Discontents stated, "The physically stronger man would…

After mile upon mile of the walls were taken down Zheng ordered that the resources be used to build fortifications along the border of the Qin territory and to begin the construction of a new defensive wall that fully encompassed China along its borders. This new wall was to protect the populace of the…

opened his eyes, to see an old man with strange runic lines across his wrinkled face . "What the " Qin Fen suddenly seeing this strange face was naturally frightened. Qin Fen suddenly took step back, only, to see that he was surrounded by quite a few strange old man. Looking around, he was on alter near a big tripod, covered with incense above, and there were people kneeling in the distance. "The Land God, the Land God!" A dry voice again sounded. Qin Fen was sure this wasn't a…

It has come to my attention that the person who is the underlying cause to this problem is Lady Zheng. I am aware that Lady Zheng is said to be “intelligent, well-read, and strong-willed” (Huang 30), which enabled her to satisfy your emotional needs and caused you to favor Lady Zheng over Lady Wang. Yet, Lady Zheng was “frequently unhappy about your indecisiveness” (Huang 32), Emperor. In fact, Lady Zheng exclaimed to you that you are “an old lady!” several times (Huang…

Wolf with Robin Zheng’s. In Susan Wolf’s “Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility”, Wolf proposed the sane deep-self view. She redefined the criteria for sanity by quoting M’Naughten Rule that “a person is sane if (1) he knows what he is doing and (2) he knows that what he is doing is either right or wrong.” (p.55) Next, she introduced the deep-self view by adopting Frankfurt’s and Taylor’s idea of one’s first-order desires should be governed by one’s second-order desires. Only then, she…

There has been a long-standing and prevalent Eurocentric view of history--today’s relatively stronger economic power of the Western countries, such as European countries, the United States, and even Japan, is inevitable due to the innate superiority of European Enlightenment thoughts, Christian religion, and later industrial developments. (Marks 2-3) However plausible, this view of history is absurdly wrong when examined under the light of reality. Back into the 13th century, most of the world…

In a classroom. An Asian American student is sitting in his seat. He isn’t one of those most noticeable guys nor was he person who was at the bottom he is what you would call B class, not A nor C but in the middle B. The man has pulled an all-nighter to catch up on the chapters of a webnovel in which he did just the other night. Lying on his desk face flat on the desk. At some point his nose starts bleeding. Every joint in his body starts cracking and then... his heart suddenly stops.…