The difference between Columbus s voyage and his politics and sailing

There are two biggest differences:

1.Objective. The main purpose of Zheng He's voyage was to promote the prestige of the country, and there was no taste of blood at all. Columbus's voyage was financed by the Spanish crown, and the benefits to be obtained were divided between the two sides before the departure.

2.Impact on the global landscape going forward.

Zheng He just communicated with other countries and brought back a little bit of technology and rare things. The Spanish royal family used force to open the way to occupy the global market and obtain monopoly benefits.

In fact, the first and second points are causality, and the purpose determines the direction of the development of things.

On July 11, 1405 (the third year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty), Ming Chengzu ordered Zheng He to lead a huge fleet of more than 240 seagoing ships and 27,400 crew members to sail and visit more than 30 countries and regions in the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, deepening China's friendly relations with Southeast Asia and East Africa. Each time he set off from Liujiagang in Suzhou, until 1433 (the 8th year of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty), he sailed a total of seven times. The last time, when Xuande returned to Guli in April of the eighth year, he died of illness on the ship.

The folk tale "The Popular Romance of the Three Treasure Eunuchs in the West" refers to his travel expedition as the Three Treasure Eunuchs going to the West.

On August 3, 1492, Columbus was sent by the King of Spain to lead three 100-ton sailing ships from the Spanish port of Barros sailing out of the Atlantic Ocean with letters to the monarch of India and the emperor of China. After seventy days and nights of arduous sailing, land was finally discovered in the early hours of October 12, 1492. Columbus thought he had arrived in India.

It was later learned that the land that Columbus had landed belonged to the Bahamas in what is now the Balerbi Sea in Central America, and he named it San Salvador at that time. On March 15, 1493, Columbus returned to Spain. He then repeated his voyage to the west three times, and landed on many shores of the Americas.

Until his death in 1506, he believed that he had arrived in India. Later, an Italian scholar named Amerigo learned after more investigation that these places that Columbus had arrived in were not India, but a new continent that had been unknown before. Columbus discovered the New World.

However, the continent was named after the man who confirmed it to be the New World: America.

Columbus's voyage is a story of the West, and Zheng He's voyage is a story of the East.

The main purpose of Zheng He's voyage was to find his imperial nephew Zhu Yunwen, who had fled overseas.

Columbus was looking for a new continent (in fact, to expand overseas markets for capitalism).

Are the two things said on the official face high-sounding???

Zheng He, you can write wrong!

<>1. Different purposes: Zheng He's actions were to promote national prestige, strengthen ties with overseas countries, and satisfy the ruler's demand for exotic treasures. Columbus had a direct pursuit of economics and profit.

2. The result was different: Zheng He's magnificent activities in the West disappeared with the decline of the Ming Dynasty's national power, and the established ties between China and the Atlantic countries came to an abrupt end. Columbus's voyage opened the prelude to the great voyage of the West and the discovery of the New World.

Zheng He's ocean, the world's first ocean, he only reached Africa as far as the sea, opening the Maritime Silk Road for China. Columbus traveled to the Americas and opened up the New World for capitalist colonial expansion.

Columbus sailed in search of profit, while Zheng He went to the West to show off his national strength.

One is economic activity and the other is political activity; One is privately run and the other is government-run.

First of all, the purpose is different, and the scale cannot be compared with ......

Zheng is Xuanwei, and brother is seeking wealth.

One is to go out to find gold, and the other is to go out and show off (the latter obviously has many advantages, such as **, etc.).

Achievements are different:

Zheng He's voyage to the West is the farthest place ever traveled in China, but those places have long been known and discovered by the world.

When Columbus discovered the New World, he discovered a continent that was unknown to the world at the time

The main purpose of Zheng He's trip to the West was to promote the power of the Ming Dynasty and let the Ming Empire bestow the world, and the propaganda significance was great.

The main reason for Columbus's discovery of the New World was to expand and colonize the world on the basis of exploration.

One went out to look for gold, the other out to find the emperor.

Columbus's voyage was the beginning of the Age of Discovery. The opening of new shipping routes changed the course of world history. It shifted the route of overseas ** from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic coast. Since then, the West has finally emerged from the darkness of the Middle Ages and begun to rise unstoppably in the world, and in the following centuries, it has achieved maritime supremacy. A new industrial civilization has become the mainstream of world economic development.

The first long-distance voyages in Europe were Portugal and Spain. Among them, Christopher Columbus was one of the most decorated mentioned.

1) Children who love boats and the sea.

Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451. His parents are said to have emigrated to Genoa. Columbus was not well off when he was a child, so he had little formal education.

However, he was diligent and studious, and with his own talent, he learned a lot of knowledge, which laid a solid foundation for his later brilliant career.

Columbus had two hobbies since he was a child: one was like boats, and the other was reading.

Columbus was very fond of boats and loved the sea. Genoa was a busy seaport, and the scenery of land and water, the ships that sailed into the sea, the merchants from the far East, the rare birds and monsters, exotic flowers and plants, gold and silver agate from foreign lands, aroused his strong curiosity and dedication: in the future, he would become a seafarer and sail to the sea.

Columbus also loved to read. Although he dropped out of school at an early age, he was able to read, and in his spare time he plunged headlong into the stacks of books, where he read many books and learned the languages of nine countries: Portuguese, Latin, and, of course, Spanish.

Among the books he read, his favorite was "The Travels of Marco Polo". This is the story of a Venetian merchant named Marco Polo who recounted his journey to the East and his dealings with the emperor of the Great Yuan Empire. The book also recounts what he saw and heard in the East, probably because Marco Polo became happier the more he talked, and then he began to talk nonsense, until he said that China was a paradise full of ** and incomparably rich.

As a result, some people later had doubts about whether this Marco Polo had ever been to China, but Columbus the Younger accepted it without doubt.

In order to realize his ideals, Columbus learned a lot of knowledge and studied a lot of things. What astronomy, geography, mathematics and other works, master how to use the method of observing the astrological positioning of the sky, understand the knowledge of wind force, wind direction, wind speed, etc., and also learn how to recognize nautical charts, so as to prepare a solid basic knowledge for later navigation.

Under the arduous study and the call of the sea, Columbus grew up day by day.

There is money to be made, the benefits of running a boat are enough for ordinary people to earn for a few lifetimes, do you want to go?

Do you think he went to the West like Zheng He, declaring my country's prestige?