<span>Between 1405 and 1433, the Ming government sponsored a series of seven naval expeditions. Emperor Yongle designed them to establish a Chinese presence, impose imperial control over trade, and impress foreign peoples in the Indian Ocean basin. He also might have wanted to extend the tributary system.
Zheng He was placed as the admiral in control of the huge fleet and armed forces that undertook these expeditions. Zheng He's first voyage consisted of a fleet of around 300 treasure ships holding almost 28,000 crewmen.
Zheng He's fleets visited Arabia, East Africa, India, Indonesia and Thailand (at the time called Siam), dispensing and receiving goods along the way. Zheng He presented gifts of gold, silver, porcelain and silk; in return, China received such novelties as ostriches, zebras, camels, ivory and giraffes.
Zheng He generally sought to attain his goals through diplomacy, and his large army awed most would-be enemies into submission. But a contemporary reported that Zheng He "walked like a tiger" and did not shrink from violence when he considered it necessary to impress foreign peoples with China's military might. He ruthlessly suppressed pirates who had long plagued Chinese and southeast Asian waters. He also waged a land war against the Kingdom of Kotte in Ceylon, and he made displays of military force when local officials threatened his fleet in Arabia and East Africa. From his fourth voyage, he brought envoys from thirty states who traveled to China and paid their respects at the Ming court.
In 1424, the Yongle Emperor died. His successor, the Hongxi Emperor (reigned 1424–1425), decided to stop the voyages during his short reign. Zheng He made one more voyage under the Xuande Emperor (reigned 1426–1435), but after that the voyages of the Chinese treasure ship fleets were ended. Z
Zheng He, on his seven voyages, successfully relocated large numbers of Chinese Muslims to the nascent Malacca, which became a large international trade center.
The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Years’ War (1756-63) and looking to its North American colonies as a revenue source.
Castigos y recompensas en el ejército romano Después de formar el campamento, los tribunos se reúnen y administran un juramento, hombre a hombre, a todos en el campamento, ya sean hombres libres o esclavos. Cada hombre jura no robar nada del campamento y aunque encuentre algo que lo lleve a las tribunas.
The Red Bed Plains is the largest out of 10 geographic regions in Oklahoma and boasts of most of Oklahoma's population as it is the most densely populated region of the state.
There are indeed important oil deposits in some areas and these serve as the main income resource for the region. The region is also blessed with agricultural resources as evidenced by the cotton (which Patty farms), maize, watermelons and sorghum grown in the region.
<em>Railroads contributed to urban growth and helped transform Texas from a frontier society to a modern state. Railroad construction became a leading industry. Once completed, railroads supported other industries that relied on transportation across the state.</em>
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<em>Los ferrocarriles contribuyeron al crecimiento urbano y ayudaron a transformar Texas de una sociedad fronteriza a un estado moderno. La construcción de ferrocarriles se convirtió en una industria líder. Una vez completados, los ferrocarriles apoyaron a otras industrias que dependían del transporte en todo el estado.</em>
