Unit 9 郑和下西洋.pptVIP

* Nanjing University professor, Pan He, confirmed that Sanbao was a reference to prisoner-slave, “sambao nu” used in the Yuan and in early Ming the term was still used. He was 12 when captured and castrated. * Conti handed over copies of Chinese charts produced during the great voyage to Henry the Navigotor. Those charts, Menzies asserts, formed the basis for all subsequent European maps that showed lands across the Atlantic, including, inter alia, the Pizzigano map (1424), the (disputed) Vinland map (1420-1440?), the Cantino planisphere (1502), and the Waldseemüller maps (1507, 1513). Zheng