Just after arriving in Mecca, we got a little break, some allow time, so i finally got to catch up with our captain Zheng He.
Q- When did you make your first trip?
A- in 1405, i sailed to India and Vietnam, on a fleet of chinese boats called junks.
Q- What were you trading with and for?
A- I carried cargos of silk, porcelain, and lacquer, and i wanted to trade for pearls, spices, ivory and timber.
Q- With all of those goods where did you store some of it?
A- I had storgage complexes nea the Strait of Malacca.
Q- What was one of the weirdest things that you got?
A- While in east africa I got a giraffe and brought it back to the Chinese Court, where they thought of it as a unicorn.
He later died in 1433 on his seventh voyage where he was buried at sea and we got orders to turn back and head to China where the new emperor wanted nothing to do with teh explorations and to deal with problems within China and build China up before focusing on the outside world. So he destoryed all of the ships and burned all of the shipping logs.
Q- When did you make your first trip?
A- in 1405, i sailed to India and Vietnam, on a fleet of chinese boats called junks.
Q- What were you trading with and for?
A- I carried cargos of silk, porcelain, and lacquer, and i wanted to trade for pearls, spices, ivory and timber.
Q- With all of those goods where did you store some of it?
A- I had storgage complexes nea the Strait of Malacca.
Q- What was one of the weirdest things that you got?
A- While in east africa I got a giraffe and brought it back to the Chinese Court, where they thought of it as a unicorn.
He later died in 1433 on his seventh voyage where he was buried at sea and we got orders to turn back and head to China where the new emperor wanted nothing to do with teh explorations and to deal with problems within China and build China up before focusing on the outside world. So he destoryed all of the ships and burned all of the shipping logs.
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