Zheng He
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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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- Born
- 1371-00-00
- Died
- 1435-00-00
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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).