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What Was The Impact Of Zheng He 7 Voyages

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Zheng He was very leaderful and did many successful things like his seven voyages that took place between 1405-1433. He lived during the Ming Dynasty and was an explorer, a mariner, and an admiral.. Zheng, had a positive impact on world history due to his way of conducting his fleet and his way of making China more informed of the world, while his adventures across seas had put his men at risk as pirates would try to take over and kill them. He led a fleet of huge ships that were believed to be the largest wooden ships ever built in the 14th and early 15th centuries.
Zheng He commanded a fleet of 300 ships with 20,000 men; these large numbers needed Zheng He to be very decisive and determined. “ Zheng and his men beat their way down through all of South-East Asia, to both coasts of India and finally to Africa's eastern coast, at least as far as …show more content…

He had specific jobs for a certain number of people. He also had to supervise the construction of the fleet which shows leadership and tells people he isn't just doing this for himself he is doing it for China and to show how powerful they are. “Before Zheng He could embark on his first epic voyage, he had to supervise the construction of the fleet, which required gathering massive supplies of wood and other materials from throughout the empire and conscripting tens of thousands of craftsmen and common laborers to build the ships.” The amount of time it took for the ships to be built had to be an absurd amount of time. In the 15th century they didn't have any machines so for Zheng He to supervise his people building those ships makes him very determined and trustworthy for example when you have a group leader and you are building a ship and all your leader does is not help or supervise you and then you mess up then your leader blames it on you because you did something wrong even though you did all the work and you leader didn't even bother checking in on

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