A man named Zheng He led the charge ... By the time Ma He was 10, his parents had died, and he was a prisoner of the Ming ...

Zheng He commanded a fleet of 317 ships ... ruled as an intellect and a warrior to create one of the greatest empires in history. China's Ming Dynasty treasure ships realized trade networks and ...

In the early 15th Century, the Ming dynasty’s Yongle Emperor dispatched an unprecedented series of naval expeditions to the Indian Ocean. Commanding them was a eunuch admiral known as Zheng He.

Origin of the Ming Tombs The Ming Dynasty was founded by Zhu Yuanzhang, who made Nanjing his capital, under the reign title of Hong Wu. He was on the throne for thirty-one years and was buried in ...

During the reign of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty a most grand and extraordinary ... One of them was Zheng He, who became famous for his voyage to the "Western Ocean" (mainly Southeast ...