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In 629 C.E., a Chinese Buddhist monk named Xuanzang wanted to go west to India to learn more about Buddhism, but at the time, the emperor had forbidden travel outside China. Xuanzang respected authority and he struggled with a decision on whether or not to make the journey. Xuanzang, a brilliant and devout man, in the end believed that going to India was the only way to answer questions that troubled Chinese Buddhists. He started a seventeen-year journey that year, much of it spent as a fugitive and traveling under the cover of darkness. There another voyage in China was also important, Zheng He's western voyages are the earliest and vastest marine cause of the largest scale and most advanced technology in the world’s maritime history. Zheng He’s voyages to the Western Sea are great diplomatic undertakings in the history of China. 600 years ago, a gigantic fleet composed of more than 200 ships and 27,000-28,000 crews under the leadership of Zheng He set out for western countries, which marked the beginning of the unprecedented series of voyages in the world maritime history. Zheng He and his crew visited more than 30 countries and started the dialogue and exchange of civilizations between China and these countries. Zheng He’s voyages declared the commencement of the great era of navigation.
Furthermore, there were 2 kings are very important, Qing shihuang and Wu zhetian, because before Qin Shi Huang (Ch'in Shih Huang-ti) unified China in 221 b.c., the country was torn apart by wars between the regional kingdoms, and Wu Zetian was the only woman to ever sit China’s imperial throne. She ruled the self-proclaimed “Zhou Dynasty” from 690 to 705 C.E. in what ultimately became an interlude during the much lengthier Tang dynasty that preceded and followed it.
Zheng Chenggong (or Koxinga) led the longest and most sustained opposition to the Qing (Ch’ing) conquest of China, first from the southern Chinese coast, later from Taiwan after he expelled the Dutch from their forts on the island. His sons held on to Taiwan against Qing forces until 1683.
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Furthermore, there were 2 kings are very important, Qing shihuang and Wu zhetian, because before Qin Shi Huang (Ch'in Shih Huang-ti) unified China in 221 b.c., the country was torn apart by wars between the regional kingdoms, and Wu Zetian was the only woman to ever sit China’s imperial throne. She ruled the self-proclaimed “Zhou Dynasty” from 690 to 705 C.E. in what ultimately became an interlude during the much lengthier Tang dynasty that preceded and followed it.
Zheng Chenggong (or Koxinga) led the longest and most sustained opposition to the Qing (Ch’ing) conquest of China, first from the southern Chinese coast, later from Taiwan after he expelled the Dutch from their forts on the island. His sons held on to Taiwan against Qing forces until 1683.
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