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Zheng He
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Chinese mariner, explorer, and diplomat
Zheng He was a Chinese explorer and diplomat who sailed vast distances across the Indian Ocean in the early 1400s, leading massive expeditions that demonstrated China's maritime power and naval technology. His voyages are significant because they showed that China was capable of extensive global exploration centuries before European maritime expansion, though the expeditions were eventually abandoned.
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Ma
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ming dynasty
- Place of birth
- Kunming
- Place of death
- Nanjing
- Occupation
- traveler
- Employer
- Xuande Emperor
- Languages spoken
- Chinese
- Religion
- Islam
- Notable work
- Treasure Voyages
- Military rank
- admiral of the fleet
- Image
- Zheng He.jpg
- Work location
- Indian Ocean
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- Zheng He
- date of death
- 1435-00-00
- date of birth
- 1371-00-00
- birth name
- Ma He
- commander of (DEPRECATED)
- Treasure Voyages
- described by source
- History of Ming
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- topic's main category
- Category:Zheng He
- start of work period
- 1405-00-00
- relative
- Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din Omar
- name in native language
- 鄭和
- ethnic group
- Hui people
- subject has role
- eunuch
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Encyclopedic overview
Birth name Traditional Chinese馬和 Simplified Chinese马和
Zheng He (Wade-Giles: Cheng Ho; 1371–1433/1435) was a Chinese explorer, admiral, diplomat, and eunuch from the early Ming dynasty, who is often regarded as the greatest admiral in Chinese history. Born into a Muslim family as Ma He, he later adopted the surname Zheng conferred onto him by the Yongle Emperor (r. 1402–1424).
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