Zheng He's Floating City: When China Dominated the Oceans
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- Опубліковано 3 вер 2019
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In our new animated historical documentary, we will talk about Zheng He and his Great Fleet of the Ming Dynasty, which traveled the Indian ocean, bringing the riches of China to the distant coasts, showing Empire’s might, conquering pirates and creating Kings. This Treasure Fleet entered the history symbolizing the decades China dominated the seas.
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Love your work keep it up
I sure hope you dont do one on ancient thailand or laos ;)
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Kings and Generals Amazing videos！Loves from China. One question tho, what happens next if all history was covered?
Dont forget last month was the 500 aniversary of the start of the first circunnavigation.
Ming's so rich they decided to flex on the world by building one of the largest ships and fleet of the discovery era just to bring home souvenirs instead of colonizing.
Trading is Chinese culture
they were also building alliances... if the emperors had followed through, they could have ruled the southern hemisphere, and made bank on it...
Back then Chinese people believed that China is the best place around the world and nowhere else was worth living in. And to some extent it was the truth at that time.
Well, you need to be industrialized for any colonization to be profitable.
Somehow missed the part where they intervened in local disputes and set their preferred candidates on the thrones.
In Malaysia 🇲🇾 we call him “Laksamana Cheng Ho”. Laksamana in Malay means admiral. The site where he first docked at Malacca is now a major historical landmark in my country and also a powerful symbol of my country’s relationship with China.
@@user-dq7to1jc7p Thanks and believe me you won't regret it.
Yet the Malaysian history books heavily downplayed the role of China in securing the establishment of the origins of the Malay Sultanate in Melaka, because many Malays in Malaysia don't like the Chinese. The progeny of Parameswara would continue to establish many of the other Sultanates in Peninsular Malaysia.
Even legendary figures like Hang Tu Ah, Hang Je Bat, and Hang Li Poh are suspected to be Chinese. The peranakan Chinese in Melaka has been around for about as long as Parameswara's people brought in from Sumatra.
@@TubersAndPotatoes From what I remember studying in high school in Malaysia, China's role was never downplayed. It was considered the main factor why the Majapahit Kingdom and Ayyuthaya kingdom couldn't really challenge Malacca at the Malacca strait. And I think its misleading to say that many Malays don't like the Chinese. Sure there are the vocal minority who like to use the Malaysian chinese as a type of Boogeyman to scare the Malays. However the Malays for the most part have a very complicated relationship and sentiment regarding the Malaysian Chinese. This complication stems from the issue of the Chinese not wanting to assimilate with the majority Malays. Of course I don't really have enough time to go over these issues in a youtube comment. Finally about Hang Tuah and Hang Jebat, I am so sick of listening to people saying they are Chinese. They are not, there is no evidence of them being Chinese other than their name sounding like Chinese. The name Hang is an honorific title given certain people of nobility. Coming from the Austronesian word "Sang", which is an archaic word for "the" While the name Tuah in Malay means "luck" while the name Jebat in Malay means "musk". Hang Li Po on the other hand really is Chinese. She is a Chinese Princess who, when married to the Sultan of Malacca was given the title of Hang.
Dexter Marzookey China 🇹🇼 ❤️Malaysia 🇲🇾
@@nelsoncheng2674 Haha, I get it bro 👍.
Population of London in 14th century: ~45,000
Zheng He's Floating City "population": ~27,000
Black plague effect. Most people left for countryside and residing people 2/3 died.
Hoooolyyyy shit😧😦😦 that’s a lot of people on boats
@@averongodoffire8098 not rly just read how many Romans were in the first punic war.
Shang China's 武丁王 could amass an army of ~13,000 soldiers and send his favourite _wife_ 婦好王后 to lead them _all_ and _win._
2637-2759 years before 鄭和.
It's certainly impressive but not unprecedented. e.g. in the First Punic War, the Romans and Carthaginians fielded fleets of at least that size (sometimes several at the same time), as did the Greeks and Persians in their wars.
As a Chinese, I would like to add something that is not mentioned in the video.
First of all, one of the reasons for Zheng He's fleet to sail. Emperor Yongle seized the throne from his nephew, not by orthodoxy, but by the army to maintain his rule. And traditional Chinese values attach great importance to orthodoxy, even if Emperor Yongle killed many people who opposed him, he would never be able to kill the evil reputation brought by his usurpation. So Emperor Yongle needed to strengthen his orthodoxy in other ways, such as letting other countries come to China to show submission(especially those countries that had never been found), which was a very great prestige for the Chinese emperor.
In the north, Emperor Yongle made many personal expeditions to Mongolia , forcing Mongolian Khan to submit to him. Meanwhile, in the south, Zheng He fleet brought back many envoys who had never submit to China. Through this important national action, Emperor Yongle strengthened his position and is still regarded as one of the greatest emperors in China today.
Second, why did the emperor choose Zheng He? In China, eunuchs are unpopular, and many people despise them, even if they serve the emperor, and most eunuchs lack the ability, I mean, military or political ability. But Zheng He was very different. He had contributed to Emperor Yongle's war to win the throne, which meant that he had the ability to lead the army. He had also been a messenger with long voyage experience. And most importantly, Zheng He is very loyal.
On the other hand, Zheng He was chosen for the need of balance. If the emperor chooses a general or a civilian official, the voyage will inevitably bring the corresponding power, prestige and influence to the military group or the civilian group. In the end, it may threaten the personal authority of the emperor. But eunuch, as I said, is unpopular. They have no choice but to rely on the emperor himself.
Then, the reasons why China did not relied on the navy to colonize. As a Chinese, of course I would like to say that this is because the Chinese love peace. But I also need to point out the real reasons. Portugal, Spain and Britain are keen on colonization because their homeland is not rich. But for China, the Chinese occupy the world's best farmland in the Yellow River and Yangtze River, and they are very rich. So China has no motive for colonial interests. In addition, Chinese people are generally infatuated with their homeland, and they seldom want to leave it.
Awesome infromation my friend, thanks for sharing.
Damn this deserves more likes.. thanks (:
Thanks you for sharing this with us
Nitpick. Agriculturally, Spain and Portugal were probably acre for acre just as good as China, just for different crops. Iberians initially started exploration (colonization came a bit later and was a side effect) to seek passage to China and India for the luxury goods in Europe at the time (spices and silk) after Ottomans took Constantinople and constricted much of the trade flowing through the Silk Road and Persian Gulf.
Then, when Columbus found "India" (aka Americas), they realized there was a ton of gold there, and climate was awesome for growing luxury crops like sugar and tobacco. So they started settling there to maintain plantations and gold/silver mines. England didn't join the party until 100-150 years later (in the 1600s).
@@donjulioanejo Well, I'm mainly considering the overall situation. Spain, Portugal and England are only three provinces of China in total, which are far less affluent than China at that time.
If you want to discuss quality, I would like to provide some information about Jiangnan. In the Ming Dynasty, the area of Jiangnan was only half that of Andalua, Spain, but it produced 23% of China's grain and 30% of its tea. The silk produced by silkworms raised on the land accounted for more than 30% of the total. In addition, cotton, vegetables and other cash crops were also produced.
So what about Andalusia? As far as I know, it is one of the best farmland in Spain. Considering the size of China's total and the difference in crops, you can explain the position of Andalusia in Europe at that time. During the Ming Dynasty, China had a population of about 60 million, and during the same period, Europe had a population of about 60 million, and the crops of Europe and Spain were roughly the same, while the crops of Jiangnan and China were roughly the same, so I think it is a good comparison object.
Last time I was this early, the Shang dynasty was being overthrown.
Now I can't back this up with Archaeological Evidence but I was so early the Xia Dynasty was around.
Aww dangit I came by when the Yellow River was being settled by people and the Mages used burned turtle shells as fortunes.
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All the emperors LMAO in their coffin!
As a person from Kerala (Quilon specifically), we still use chinese jars, woks, nets and even have a place named the Chinese market (Chinnakada) 😇
Omg really 😮I spend a brief holiday in Kerala few years back,would have visited it if I had known.our travel guide took us to Jew island(or something I actually forget).Kerala is a cool place to visit 👍🏻
@@acemiyamoto61 😃 Kollam was also a Jewish settlement. We emigrated 1200 years ago, there's a lot of history in Kollam, the Portuguese inquisition, our old buildings and more! Do visit Kollam, Wayanad, Kozhikode etc if you visit again!
😲Indian?
growing up in Malaysia, even our school text book mentioned the Admiral Zheng He and how he forge alliance with the old Malacca kingdom and resulted in the golden age of Malacca trade and political stability, I'm glad your channel cover this magnificent man's saga
*Chinese makes ships*: We come to trade
*Europeans makes ships*: It's free real estate
More fool china.
@Zu Who did this?
Many natives of these countries wouldn't have their own languages in writing if it wasn't for Europeans.
I don't know what you are talking about if anything we tried to examine them.
@Tong Su French don't boil dogs alive in hot oil or cats and bat's.
Swiss like cheese not dogs.
@@josephmcbloggs8447 Literally everything you said is wrong.
Pretty much ALL of the countries Zheng He went to is now Muslim. Coincidentally, ALL of them have some form of Arabic script (Kenyans, Malays, all the other Sultans and stuff ALL have arabic script. Zheng He is also Muslim.
Also, swiss eat dogs.
@@josephmcbloggs8447 don't u funking justify bloody colonizer🤮
Those voyages of Zheng He reminds me of the old Star Trek series: Traveling to several places and sometimes helping or fighting the natives, but never colonising those places.
Funny you should mention that, classic Trek is partly inspired by the age of exploration in Europe. In fact the iconic line, " to boldly go is borrowed from there. I learned this on extra credits.
Star Trek series copycat Zheng He voyage ! Haha!
@@davidsuda6110 in the start even europe was about trading and not colonising. The portuguese mainly setup trade posts in asia since they couldnt invade the natives
The americas were colonised since so many people there died to disease it was easy to invade
Anglo-Saxons = Not our motto. Our motto is colonize all and they should follow our way of life under us and never be our equals.
They had no interest in those primitive's land, it was to secure the southern hemisphere without much military spending, and they succeeded in that. If they had interest in those lands they would've colonized it.
Everybody gangster until the treasure fleet pull up
Stale Baguette vikings stilll gangster cuz they know they gonna be rich soon
@@TraviansLittleHelpe Yep! Rich with arrows and shipwreck. I don't see any other outcome against literal medieval era dreadnoughts protected by *professional soldiers.*
*Britain Man O War has enter the Chat*
*Zheng He is actually Muslim of Central Asian blood, like Uighurs China is oppressing in concentration camps right now.* But modern artwork depict him with Chinese-washing. Zheng He's father is Ma Hazhi, 馬哈只, where "Ma" means Mohammed, and "Hazhi" is transliteration of "Hajj," a title for people who made the pilgrimage to Mecca.
kl wies wow you really are under influence of a brainwashing campaign imposed by the despotic country’s you mentioned above.I felt pity for you
I would really love to see a movie based on Zheng He's final voyage. The emotional aspect would be wonderful for Zheng He, after being denied any more voyages, is allowed to travel one last time and completes his life at sea.
There was a 59 episodes Chinese TV series in 2009 called Zheng He Xia Xi Yang if you're searching
Dang, completing life at the sea is the true sailor's way to go.
Just discovered this channel. Chinese history is incredibly interesting to me.
Welcome aboard!
To me, too, but being constantly bombarded with CCP lies and propaganda by paid propagandists is annoying. Heads up, 50 cent army: all you do with your aggressive BS is inspire contempt and disgust.
@ wtf?
BenjaminFranklin99 NMSL, CIA paid troll
@ you people's brains are washed by western media. i hope you can do more research and come to china yourself before you make the ignorant comment.
Random Factoid:
Zheng He was not only very important to the overseas Chinese in South East Asia, but he was very instrumental in the early history of Malaysia as well. The city of Singapore (Singapura) was actually a refugee hold out from the once mighty kingdom of Srivijaya that sprawled all across the many islands across modern Malaysia and Indonesia.
But by 1398 the kingdom was reduced by its arch-rival the Majapahit Empire to only a remnant inhabited by the refugee nobles from Srivijaya. When Majapahit finally destroyed Singapura, those who survived, including the king Parameswara founded the Sultanate of Malacca. At that time, it was still a vulnerable hold out surrounded by many powerful enemies. And that's why the King in 8:27 pledged vassalage to the Ming Emperor for direct protection. With this regional understanding they become virtually untoucheable and it was with this stability they were able to eventually become a strong regional power.
I'm from Malaysia and I'm fascinated that you know so much of the history of Malacca and the neighboars such as srivijaya as well!!!
This definitely sparks my interest. I'm gonna have to start doing more research into the region. It's an area I don't know much about.
Exactly, the great Explorer Zheng He. One of the greatest man in Chinese history.. ua-cam.com/video/Iwqrrj8uUmQ/v-deo.html
A fellow Malaysian as well. I'm surprised that they didn't mention this in our history books taught at schools .
I'm Indonesian an i think in my country that called Sriwijaya from Palembang, Sumatra. And now it's become one of the professionals football club or Sriwijaya FC
Fun fact, in some southern Chinese Dialects, the word for "Giraffe" is still "Qilin"!
In Korean and Japanse, giraffe both originated from Qilin.
Same in Japan
haha true, it is the case in Hokkienese. Not sure about Cantonese
@@harryy33 yep! My mom is Taiwanese, that's how I found out about this tidbit.
And in Japanese, it’s Kilin
Netflix could have 7 season full of adventures about it - The Treasure Fleet
yeah that would be interesting but not documentary i dont like modern historians talking when u watch a series you know
like a chinese Black Sails
@@LiuBei661 Yeah it can be a historical drama.
@@vgmaster9 true it could be like you know marco polo series and even more better
@@LiuBei661 Haven't watched that, but I did watch Barbarians.
Hi guys, im from Indonesia, If u all want to see zheng he’s relics, come to Indonesia, precisely in Semarang on the island of Java, the name is Sampokong Temple, usually the local peoples call it like that.
I guess Sampokong means "三保公", one of the names of that man.
Im from Singapore, we have a spot by the sea at Labrador's Park, called the Dragon Tooth Gate, where Zheng He landed from his ship. When i was 5 years old, my mother taught me that Zheng He was called "Sampokong" in Hokkien language.
@@unholydanger 郑和，小名三保太监
Claim war has started
Udahlah orang-orang Indonesia nggak usah ikut-ikutan, punya kelas dikit lah, biar orang-orang malay ama singapur ini aja yang komen-komen overproud pernah disinggahi laksamana cheng ho, kita orang Indonesia jangan ikutan norak kayak mereka
Zheng He and the treasure fleets are one of my fav historical what if's and parts of history thank you guys for making this!
TÜRK what are you talking about? you buffoon
@TÜRK Yea but Turkey is a rubbish country now compared to China. You are even Germany's bitch to this day but China is already squaring up with the US. Continue your dream but Turkey already became a failure as a country back in Ottoman. Poor Turks, sickman of Europe.
Sad log books got burned.
Apparently he traveled as far as America and that's how Columbus got the map to America after visiting China.
He didn’t make it to America period. There are no history proof to that. Just hypothesis.
@@minge9 on the left bottom corner of the map it say's 乾隆...which is a name of emperor in Qing Dynasty. So no... the distance between China and American is about 9000KM. no ship would be able to travel that far in that Era.
It was a Chinese tradition, in a more or less sad way. All dynasties kept excessive written records about everything in designated archives. Because when a dynasty was overthrown, it was considered the task of the succeeding one to write their history based upon those records. Chinese historian Sima Qian even proposed critical examination of written records almost 2000 years before Leopold von Ranke did. Sadly, when the historians were done writing the previous dynasties history, all the used sources were usually burned to free up space. Since the history was now there, they were no longer needed, so the thinking.
A story, just as intersting as sad.
Yeah, so much evidence was destroyed when those log books were burned. We'll sadly never know all the details of the voyages.
Being a bengali and muslim I couldnt help but be amazed by this story.....what a thrilling life he must have had.
Zheng He visited Melaka, Malaysia. The Malay rulers would complain to the Chinese about the Siamese harassment and the Chinese would send reinforcement.
Chen Zuyi: Man those massive treasure ships look like a great target to raid! Let's do it men.
Zheng He and the Treasure Fleet: Imma end this man's whole career
It's a she
@@randyalexander4820 The famous female pirate only came into power in the late Qing, at least 300 years after Zheng He.
@@eugeneng7064 Cheng I Sao would come about later. She was still kick-ass though
@@randyalexander4820 ...different person, different time
The equivalent of a bandit trying to mug the player in any RPG. lol
I think "China's Belt and Road Initiative" should be the one, who sponsored this video XD
Hi zheyenk
You gents forgot to take your meds.
@@BoqPrecision stalking youtube profiles isn't healthy.
Imperial Commander Yue Fei 岳飛 yes they are, if Zionist aren’t involved why is Israel in on the deal?
Yes, I am sure it is a attempt to justify Chinese BRI project to Intimidate South China Sea and afro-arabian-indian (Bharatiya) counterparts in preset t day world. It is power-propaganda based sponsorship of gone-days history! Think yourself
Interesting point, giraffe in Japan and Korea is called kirin(qilin).
萧萧 in Thailand it’s also refer in old literature as กิเลน (quilen) a sort of Asian unicorn.
They're all affected by China duhh. Most Japanese and Koreans may deny it but history proves the Chinese built the foundation to these nations whether it be genetically or cultural
krillin confirmed a giraffe
@@bmona7550 Kind of like how most western countries are based heavily on greek and roman ideas/laws/languages most of Indochina and East Asia got alot of their laws/ideas/languages based on China's. This is partially due to cultural osmosis but also heavily because it was very fashionable for the wealthy to hire Chinese court officials, bureaucrats, and administrators both due to being fashionable/prestigious if you could get one and because they were often well trained.
@@bmona7550 A lot of Korean and Japanese words have Chinese origins. I know Nippon was named by a Chinese Empress.
I have heard of the Chinese connection & trade relationship with the Swahili coast in Africa & wanted to learn more. Thank you for this, this was great
Fun fact, in the state of Malacca in Malaysia, they have the only Chinese influence design in traditional mosque and can be seen at the tip of the roof which pointed upwards. Same as the design at the tip of the roof of a common traditional Chinese building.
In Xi'an, there are mosques built in traditional Chinese architecture
@@alchemistjeff I know. That's China. It's different in Malaysia
wow. now it make sense why the story is somehow familiar when i was studying history in secondary school
There are several Chinese Muslim mosques in Indonesia. Many of them are called Muhammad Cheng Hoo Mosques, but there are others like Lautze Mosque.
@@liongkienfai104 Cheng Ho & Zheng He are the same person isnt it?
I first learnt about Admiral Zheng He from Age of Empires 3
@@user-dq7to1jc7p Yes! I remember those pirates talking about Zheng He's hidden treasure ship.
In that game this admiral visit american continent
@Aleksa Petrovic he made it to the aztec in the game man, the incas would have probably bought their ships and started a maritime age of their own.
@@cseijifja bro the Inca were the most primitive of the big three empires of the Americas.《Maya, Aztec, and Incan》
Sadly, AOE 3 made Ming Dynasty warriors just the same to Qing's: long hairtail, and round hat.
You imagine being a random dude on a beach watching this massive fleet come towards you.
like damn.
😁
then a smaller vessel reaches the shore before you a Chinese diplomat jumps and asks in English "we are here for the giraffes where is the giraffe market sir?"
that's literally a city floating to you
Just to bring goods to trade and not to hurt you, you’ll be praying all day
It's a shame that a lot of language barriers have limited western knowledge of amazing people such as this. All the world should learn of the amazing feats of early history.
Those Chinese writing @ 4:40 translate:
I like big boats and I can not lie.
My big boats bring all the treasure to the city.
Steve L I played total war: 3 kingdoms twice, I can confirm this.
Haha
Now sing it Sir Mix-a-Lot
@@quocvietophu1627 Hai` VCL
Lmao
The first Cruise Ships, though probably still less food poisoning....
Nah dude they're about the same size as the European Carraks that existed before those.
How do you have that logo yo
@@ridalger16 The "join" button, if you can see it. It might not be available yet in your country.
@@bobsquaredme, we are yet to be visited by Zhang He, I see. Unfortunate...
and more respectful towards crew members
Asia is so very rich in amazing history! Thank you for always providing quality and informative videos!
This is by far one of the coolest stories I've ever heard!!
FACT: One Ming ship crashed on an Island on the swahili coast.
The Chinese stayed there and intermarried with the locals.
To this day, people on the island look half black half asian.
super cool fact! 👍
Dakota Conn What's it called
Dakota Conn this doesn’t seem to be concrete, their isn’t any hard evidence yet, so you can’t call it a “fact”
@@williamgong2351 From what I saw in a documentary, archeologists did find a Chinese grave there, AND one of the part black, part asian women showed a family heirloom (chinese porcelain cup) to the archeologist to which he said that it does indeed look authentic...
@@williamgong2351 theres a interview with artifacts shown too
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Europe: These treasure ships of our are making us rich
China: These treasure ships of our are bleeding us dry
Cause China's aim was project Power while Spain, Portugal etc. wanted to extract riches (silver, slaves spices etc.) thus colonies
Blame the Aztecs and Incans for having such an obscene amount of gold to justify all dat colonisation.
I read somewhere, that all the gold they took from South America actuallly caused the value of gold to drop significantly. Even think Spains economy crashed because of it at one point.
@@Deadmangafan True, but the problem was more with silver than gold since only rich people could afford gold anyway. The treasures from the Americas completely tanked the markets. Spanish greed was legendary, and they tried to spend all that money at once without thinking of the long term effects. Whereas the British were creating communities and putting down roots, the Spanish were just there for the loot (and the French just stopped caring about their colonies lol). That looting mentality is still prevalent in Latin America to this day.
@@Deadmangafan Actually i heard Spanish economy crashed some 3 times.
Thanks for doing this video! Zheng He's story and various myths and legends are some of my personal favorite in Chinese history
Damm, imagine being on this crew, you'd have so much adventure and stories to tell that people in your hometown could hardly imagine.
Also, during these times, the muslims really were everywhere, pretty amazing. From the Arabs, Persians and the Central Asian Turkic-Mongol tribes, to the Chinese, to Southeast Asia, Africa, and Europe if we include Andalus(Spain). I assume the Arabs had some form of connections to all these parts of the world
Devvv and they are great traders that travel across everywhere, according to Zheng he fleet history records.
@@stephenlaw1910 zheng he is muslim actually
Amazing high value production vid keep up the good work
Apparently one of those boats crashed in on pate Island for some reasons the sailors decided to stay there despite Pate being a large center of Mtepe (the boats used by the Swahili to travel across the Indian Ocean) Construction. Guess they enjoyed the Place enough to stay and die there based of the Ming styled tombstones. Strangely enough they found chinese pottery and silk across the Ruins of Zimbabwe.
Tyrone Chillifoot a theory as to why the pottery is there is from the Ajuran empire in Somalia, as well as the Swahili coast, who used to trade with China even after Zheng He left.
The video author fail to mention how many ships stranded and sunk by typhoon or coral reefs. Hence some sailors stay behind.
There was a very active trade network around the Indian Ocean and South China Sea.
there are descendents to this day of a group of Chinese sailors that stayed in Africa. Legend has it that the group of sailors asked the villagers if they could stay since they had no way of returning to China and the villagers tasked them with killing a serpent that was preying on the village. The group of men ended up killing it and were thus allowed to make the village their home. There was a group of children a few years ago that they found were descended from those sailors and they were given full scholarships to Beijing University.
@@Bumbaclart247 there is a documentary from china where they found some african with chinese descends and fund the girl to study in china
Such a great video to start the day. I feel I have so much to talk about and share with my friends
Happy to hear that!
Okay how GORGEOUS is this video!
Now that's what we call "Amazing Historical Content" :))
Thanks!
AKA Laksamana Cheng Ho
@@KingsandGenerals Ur welcome dude
@@KingsandGenerals please make more videos about saladin and Khalid bin Walid
@@InspectHistory nyasar lu min 🤣
He went to Indonesia and has one of his ships settled in the rivers of Semarang.(Central Java) it’s still there
@ You will sink easily
@@qs332 Poor little 50 cent army landlubber CCP propagandist. I sailed my little lifeboat sized sailboat across the Pacific Ocean via the South Pacific.
@ We all know CIA slaves tell a lot of lies, but i believe you. Wish you sink soon.
@ Poor little yankee army landlubber CIA propagandist. Good luck with your medical bill and student debt.
@ poor CIA slaves licking the evil US gov's ass
Best video so far this is why I love this channel they talk about history’s most exquisite topics I really really appriciate your efforts.
Thanks for watching!
İzlediğiniz için teşekkürler!
What a fascinating piece. China was at its zenith in this period while Europe was still recovering from the dark ages.
This channel never ceases to amaze me. Every single video is just so interesting, and I am grateful that a channel such as this exists. Excellent job as always!
Thanks!
This was awesome. I definitely need to learn more Chinese history. How many more are you going to do in this series?
Many? Few? Depending on how well this one will do :-)
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Then, we can see more Chinese History Content :D
I was a bit hesitant at first by the title of the video since I'd never heard of anything like this but my god what an incredibly interesting video, gonna have to research more. thanks K&G
I've literally binge watched a few of your videos particularly on the mafia, Chinese triad and some Chinese history. Very informative and interesting and was really great to listen in the background. Actually helped making some mundane tasks much more interesting. You guys just got yourself a new subscriber. Definitely impressed with this channel.
*Europeans* : Lets steal
*China* : Lets trade
Ooki Cooki Of course, all major empires of the time did those things (conquering). My comment was just making fun of the fact that the Chinese gave gold and riches to entice these “tributary” states, while the Europeans did a completely different tactic...to put it lightly.
British: let's sell them opium
Europeans traded too lol. They'd do anything that could give them money
Dude literally raided part of Mongolia, kidnapped a man and chopped his cock off. Yeah he seems like a nice guy.
@张林 yeah compare all of European history with one guy. Of course he looks good by comparison. Let's forget Mao killed more people than hitler or Stalin. Why would China need to oppress people from other countries when they're so good at doing it to their own.
Some amazing effort went into this. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Great and long awaited topic, glad you covered it!
This is one of my favorite topics thank you for making this.
China goes to foreign lands with gigantic fleets of gifts. Europeans come with guns.
They knew that building relationships with other nations pays off for everyone, rather than dominating them and changing their culture.
China has that mindset today too, building the infrastructure and friendships around the world, because they know both parties will benefit, especially China eventually.
monk china has been extremely imperialist for all history. Like they are to Tibetans and xuigurs today
@@jamesoleary2476 really? they didnt conquer America and Australia though..
@@jamesoleary2476 What???? Tell me where are the native people in North America, South America and Australia now???????
@@jamesoleary2476 Something completely unrelated. It's late and I'm tired, and I thought your name was OJ, but that was just because I was switching back to reading everything left to right instead of right to left.
Ok, nevermind me. Carry on then. As you were.
an incredibally well researched and fair video. Great job!
Imagine the Chinese would have continued with the fleet. How interesting the confrontation with Western explorers would have been.
the history continues today when chinese meet the western influences in africa and near east
Calvin Blue to think they were called Junks truly is ironic
that kinda led the western to trade with the far east through the sea. After 100 years of zheng ha, spain came to japan to trade through the same route.
@@alexdunphy3716 Uhm
I suggest you read up more about the interactions between Ming and the Portuguese
The Portuguese were beaten so badly that it wasn't even funny
so true... honestly if it did happen i'd assume the Inca and Aztec will still be alive today... also it might saved Africa from centuries of plundering and slavery...
Such an amazing docummentary! Didn't occurred to me that Zheng He was such a pivotal figure in southeast asia. It was said that the fleet was used to search the missing Emperor Jian Wen during the civil war to avoid future claims to the throne.
A minor info that is inaccurate is the civil war embroiled the Ming realms was between Hong Wu's grandson and zhu di, Hong Wu's forth son.
>When China dominated the oceans
2020: Oh sheet here we go again.
Lmao yeah cuz all the nuclear powered aircraft carriers are chi- oh wait the USA has 11 of those...
@Miller Mayhem hmm, more like South Korea's and Japan's big daddy :P
Really cool seeing you take on a new concept. I'd love to see more naval-focused videos.
Been loving History for a long time since school times. Visuals beautifully done and great narratives. You guys get a new subscriber here.
Such behemoth fleets will easily put everyone in awe even in our time. Imagine the people who gazed those tremendous ships during their time. It's just truly unbelievable.
One little fun fact. The tallest Zheng He statue in the world is located in Semarang, Indonesia, inside Sam Po Kong temple complex. It's a 12 metres tall statue made of bronze. I can't really confirm this since there's nothing mentioning this with a short search from Google, but that's what the local news said.
I live in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia, u can see it on the map 5:43 And we have a mosque named after him. It doesn't look like average Indonesian mosque tho, it looks like a temple from outside because of the Chinese architecture. And we Indonesian called him "Laksamana Cheng Ho", admiral Cheng Ho.
thanks alot for sharing this. I enjoy puting city names and icons when I create maps for our videos. I feel like someone would feel happy when see his/her city name/location on the map. I feel that I belong to all those mystical, ancient, far away cities even though I never visited like Sumatra. Greetings and goodluck!
@@otgunz thank u. You did a great job, keep it up!
Interesting. Makes me want to visit Palembang
@@wise003090 unfortunately because of this pandemic, most of people have to stay at home, and Palembang is entering 2nd month of quarantine
More Chinese history please. I'm an American Chinese and I find this fascinating as hell. 谢谢你们！
watch the recent Chinese drama "The Imperial Age." Zheng He however was a very minor character and the fleet was not included until the end
Great episode, thank you very much!
My gosh i need more of theseee
What a wonderful video!! Excellent work!
This channel is all class. Thank you guys. Love your content !
Thanks for watching!
It's 'K and G chill time' baby. Always fun learning history with you lot. Keep up the good work 👀🙌
I wish I was there to sail with the Treasure Fleet
yeah，that will be a wonderful trip
Maybe you all here did it in the past lives several incarnations ago.
Thank you for making this video, almost in tears. Several thousand years of Chinese history, self-bound to isolationism. So few such as Zheng He/Yongle/Ban Chao are willing to go beyond. Thank you K&G team!!!!!!
A particularly interesting video. I really love it when one of these videos ties in with a piece of random knowledge/lore here in South Africa. For instance, there is evidence of trade between the kingdom of Great Zimbabwe and the Chineses. Perhaps this helps to explain it. A real shame they turned to isolationism. Chinese knowledge and culture at the time was particularly advanced and could have gone a long way to progressing peoples all along the rim of the Indian Ocean.
Great content here. Been watching everything non stop
Big congratulation for the quality and visual supports of this video.
I guess one of the most beautiful one!
And this history is just amazing 😂
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17:28 Zheng He also went to Hajj in Makkah
Yes, as a Muslim, he needed to make a pilgrimage to Mecca...
He never went, he was denied entry because of being an Eunuch but he sent someone to do haj and umrah for him.
Azam Khan true. Whether he is being allow or denied at Makkah, still debatable because he is an eunuch
@Karl Scher are you ok
eliispion no he has a severe need of attention it seems
Great work ! I'm following you channel since a while and the quality is always top-notch... Glad you also covers non-military historical subjects. Zheng He history (which is revived now by China) always seemed fascinating to me and the treasure boats are mindboggling behemoth yet conventionally built very old junks. They were also called Baochuan. The fleet indeed consisted in more than 200 junks of all sizes, ranging from the giant junk-admiral to 62 more conventional boats, down to the smallest auxiliaries.
The fleet included a very hierarchical set of 2 great commanders, 93 naval commanders, the equivalent of generals, 140 millerions and 406 centurions for 26,800 soldiers and 868 civilian officers, a finance reporter, a geographer, an instructor and two military judges, 180 medical officers and their assistants, while Zheng He himself (which was an imperial eunuch, trusted for this expedition) was assisted by 2 ordinances, 7 ambassadors, 10 young eunuchs, 53 chambellans.
These treasure ships, according to the Chinese texts which reported the size of their dock, were junks, so flat-bottom ships of 130 to 150 meters long for 40 to 60 m of wide, estimated about 1500 to 2500 tons, with a crew of 1000 men and about 100 merchants and their families housed in the apartments of these ships with up to 6 decks. This has to be compared with the Santa Maria of Cristobal Colomb, almost a century later. The Baochuan was also given nine masts, on which were mounted up to 30 battened sails.
Dimensions that are questionable for wooden vessels, but it must be said that the very special technique of the Chinese, far ahead of Europe at the time on flat-bottomed ships, allowed a great rigidity, authorizing of such dimensions. Each of these giant junks had 16 to 30 huge cannons in order to impress the locals.
The graphism and visual of this video were breathtaking !
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Like always a precious, interesting and informative video.
Wow, that's one hell of an adventurer.
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That was amazingly informative and loved the visuals used!!
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I hope one day they make an epic movie to cover just one of his voyages. It would be awesome!
Very interesting! As a Portuguese it's impressive to see these exploits, so related in a way to subsequent Portuguese endeavours through the Indian Ocean.
This was decades before Bartolomeu Dias reached the Cape of Good Hope (previously known as Cabo das Tormentas (Storms Cape), and renamed by Dias as Cabo da Boa Esperança (Cape of Good Hope)), and Vasco da Gama reached Calecut, opening the doors to the impressive achievements of viceroys Francisco de Almeida and Afonso de Albuquerque, who managed to found an empire from Ormuz to Malaca, and finally reaching China itself, securing Macau.
Reason enough to think "what if...", right?
To my surprise, one of my favorite videos at Kings and Generals channel. I knew the general story of the man and the Golden Fleet, but learning through you about the backstory of the man and the details of the various trips has been truly fascinating. Thank you!
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I am from the city of Quilon (Kollam) mentioned in the video and Calicut (Kozhikode) and Cochin (Kochi) once a Ming Protectorate is close by. All three cities are part of Kerala State and people here have long forgotten the trade links with China. Calicut is mostly remembered today as the first indian port Vasco Da Gama landed.
Awsome video, thank you!!!
Amazing story about one of the most epic time periods in Chinese history. Loved the ink drawings and watercolor too.
I went to see a replica of one of the ships in Nanjing. Nanjing is definitely worth a visit for all the history there! It also has the Ming emperor tombs.
Maybe that's why the Japanese massacred and destroyed Nanjing, to erase this memorable history.
@@georgevlavianos1401 I don't think they destroyed much physical property. All the Republican era buildings still stand like Sun's mausoleum and the presidential palace, along with the ancient history.
@@cbrtdgh4210 Oh, so it was just a good ol' plain massacre. Thanks for the info!
@@georgevlavianos1401 They massacred the city because at that time, Nanjing was the capital of China and Japan thought China would surrender its entire country if its capital fell. Surprisingly, China just moved to another capital and did not surrender the entire country.
@@apinl8844 I know the history. Still nothing excuses what Japan did to China.
These are really great. Thanks a lot guys!
so much thanks, nobody tell the world about zheng he until this channel. In the Western world almost everyone know about Columbus but just a little people know zheng he. thank you again for tell the world history.
Victor Tony, On the contrary, Zheng He's voyages were very widely told in the world. In some American schools, their history books even have Zheng He. Most are positive except a few. For instance, a British doctor Ian Holloway was suspicious of the truth in Zheng He's ships. He showed, Zheng He's ships were not seaworthy, too long too wide to survive sea waves. If they went to sea, they would have been crushed by sea waves in no time. Incidentally, this unseaworthiness was also talked about in a Chinese article published on the net. The title of the article is: 郑和下西洋是一个被夸大到千万倍的虚假宣传。
@@legpol the title of the article is coming from an absolute extreme anti-china collection website
Which including article call Chinese bug and even worse
I have no idea why on earth you will squeezing on website search for those kinda of thing and I don't even want waste time on you to explain this. If you feel you are the true hero of the mankind to reveal every fake things to truth now stand up fight the world. Yes, not Chinese. Fight every single corner where western testbook written about zheng he fight every scholars who support the idea till the world know you truth
Once again. I was shocked when I actually find the origin of this articles, combing with other extremist riduclous written article. I have no single idea why on earth you spend time on sth like this but I tell you, you do get an eyebrow rise up dude
@@yiyangqin4527 : Of course the article comes from an anti-China website because only anti-China websites will accept anti-China stuff. Using your common sense, please tell me (1) is it possible for people to build 317 huge wooden sail ships in less than 3 years, (2) is it possible for these sail ships to operate in running waters, (3) is it possible no people saw them.
The (3)needed clarification. The mission of Zheng He's voyages was to exhibit China's ships to foreigners. To accomplish such a mission, Zheng He must have invited many foreigners to see his ships, especially foreign officials. As a result, thousands upon thousands of foreigners must have been invited to go aboard his ships to inspected in close range. Unfortunately, there was no reports on the seeing and sighting. Of course, no seeing means no ships. Zheng He never had any ships.
In Indonesia Cengho commander is very famous for many historical relics and travel traces spread from Java to Sumatra. many temples and mosques are called Cengho
I’ve been looking for a clear, definitive history of Zheng He. Thank you for this.
The contents, presentation, figures, narration of this video have reached excellency. My utmost respect and aknowledgment to the authors. - V. From Alicante, Spain.
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Western visit poor region: Attack, conquer the land, salve the people.
Chinese visit poor region: Would you like our product? If you can not afford it, we will give some to you as a gift.
Ever heard of an area called Tibet or Vietnam. Or how about the Austronesian people who were enslaved by the Chinese for millennium.
Survival of the fittest bitch
@@aaronmarsch2614 ur idiot
9:10
China now: Attack, conquer the land, salve the people.
Zheng he，a great Admiral and a legendary animal collector.....
Thanks for sharing this great piece of history! Regarding the end of the fleet, it’s important to note that “trade” and “economic” interests were not part of the fleet’s purpose or achievements, especially in the eyes of the Confucian literati who powered the state. As such, the expeditions gained tribute and not practical trade that yielded profit.
You have a great speaking voice, I thoroughly enjoyed the video!
Imagine what was in those log books.. My god. What an awesome figure of history, I'm glad this came up in my feed
A Chinese colonial empire? Now THAT'S an interesting what-if scenario I would love to watch
Geography determines destiny. That scenario is fun to think about, but that's it.
@@wisdomleader85 Not geography - actually those who eventually gained power decided to become isolationist. If they had decided to continue exploring/spreading their influence it could have turned out very different.
@@Monochromicornicopia
As the video stated, the voyages were put to a halt due to economic reasons. Isolationism was merely an excuse. I mentioned geography because unlike China, many European countries became colonial powers due to their geographical conditions. Agriculture was difficult to develop in western Europe and wealth was generated through trading with the middle east before the age of discovery, so Europeans were pretty much forced to explore and expand, especially after the Ottomans rose and imposed heavy tariffs. Same problem didn't exist in China since two massive rivers and three rich plains ensured the prosperity of agriculture there, and the gigantic landmass of China was unified under one centralized regime at the time.
Except China was already extremely wealthy and powerful and hegemonic in its corner of the world. The Ming and later Qing didn't feel the need to expand their sphere of influence around the world like the fractious European powers did.
@@wisdomleader85 Isolationism is the cause. As stated in the video, the funds that could have been put towards voyages were instead put toward building a giant wall.
This guy was a badass. Thank you guys for putting this info in such a consumable way
Im from Calicut ! I never heard about this story ! This is so cool !!
I would love to watch a miniseries of this.