郑和下西洋【英文】

Henry the Navigator 1394-1460
Astrolabe
Portuguese caravel. This was the standard model used by the Portuguese in their voyages of exploration. It could accommodate about 20 sailors.
Zheng He
(Hajji Mahmud Shamsuddin)
1371-1433 Chinese Admiral
Christophe Colomb’s and Zheng He’s Ships
A giraffe brought from Malindi, Kenya, by the fleets of Zheng He.
Fernão Gomes 15th Century Portuguese entrepreneur who purchased from the king the privilege to explore in return for trade monopoly.
The Portuguese Fleet Embarked for the Indies This image shows a Portuguese trading fleet in the late fifteenth century, bound for the riches of the Indies. Between 1500 and 1635, over nine hundred ships sailed from Portugal to ports on the Indian Ocean, in annual fleets composed of five to ten ships.
Bartolomeu Dias 1451-1500
Vasco da Gama 1469-1524 Portuguese Sailor
The route followed in Vasco da Gama's first voyage (1497–1499)
European Exploration, 1420–1542 Portuguese and Spanish explorers showed the possibility and practicality of intercontinental maritime trade. Before 1540 European trade with Africa and Asia was much more important than that with the Americas, but after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empires transatlantic trade began to increase. Notice the Tordesillas line, which in theory separated the Spanish and Portuguese spheres of activity.
Lateen Sail
Portuguese Map of Western Africa, 1502 The map shows in great detail a section of African coastline that Portuguese explorers charted and named in the fifteenth century. The African interior is illustrated with drawings of birds and views of coastal sights: Sierra Leone, named for a mountain shaped liFra Baidu biblioteke a lion, and the Portuguese Castle of the Mine on the Gold Coast.
Portuguese in India In the sixteenth century Portuguese men moved to the Indian Ocean Basin to work as administrators and traders. This Indo-Portuguese drawing from about 1540 shows a Portuguese man speaking to an Indian woman, perhaps making a proposal of marriage.
Elmina Castle Erected in 1482 by the Portuguese in Ghana
Portuguese Port in Muscat erected in the 1580s
Fort Jesus, Mombasa Still standing on the Kenyan coast today, Fort Jesus was built by the Portuguese in 1593. The fort was built not only to protect Portuguese trade interests in the Indian Ocean, but also to assert the Christian conquest of the Swahili speaking Muslims of Mombasa. The Swahili word for a jail, gereza, derives from the Portuguese word for a church, igreja, indicating how the residents of Mombasa themselves saw Fort Jesus.