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An extensive seaborne commerce had developed to meet the taste of the Chinese for spices and aromatics and the need for raw industrial materials. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content.įor some 300 years the Chinese had been extending their power out to sea. The Ming court then sought to display its naval power to bring the maritime states of South and Southeast Asia in line. Under the Yongle administration (1402–24), the war-devastated economy of China was soon restored. In 1400 the prince of Yan revolted against his nephew, the Jianwen emperor, taking the throne in 1402 as the Yongle emperor. Ma also had made influential friends at court. By 1390, when those troops were placed under the command of the prince of Yan, Ma He had distinguished himself as a junior officer, skilled in war and diplomacy. The young Ma Sanbao (later Ma He), as he was then known, was among the boys who were captured, castrated, and sent into the army as orderlies. In 1381, when he was about 10 years old, Yunnan, the last Mongol hold in China, was reconquered by Chinese forces led by generals of the Ming dynasty, which had overthrown the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty in 1368. The family name Ma was derived from the Chinese rendition of Muḥammad. His family claimed descent from an early Mongol governor of Yunnan province in southwestern China as well as from King Muḥammad of Bukhara (now in Uzbekistan).

His father was a hajji, a Muslim who had made the hajj (pilgrimage) to Mecca. Zheng He was from a Hui (Chinese Muslim) family. He commanded seven naval expeditions almost a century before the Portuguese reached India by sailing around the southern tip of Africa. 1371, Kunyang, near Kunming, Yunnan province, China-died 1433, Calicut, India), admiral and diplomat who helped extend the maritime and commercial influence of China throughout the regions bordering the Indian Ocean. Zheng He, Wade-Giles romanization Cheng Ho, original name Ma Sanbao, later Ma He, (born c. By 1390, under the command of the prince of Yan, he had distinguished himself as a junior officer-skilled in war and diplomacy and having made influential friends at court. In 1381 Yunnan was reconquered by Ming dynasty forces, and he was captured, castrated, and sent into the army.

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