Discoveries of Zheng He
Zheng He was said to have discovered America 70 years before Christopher Columbus did. However, not a lot of people believe in this and strongly believed that it was Christopher Columbus who truely discovered America. Other than that, Zheng He traded a lot in his Voyages with other countries, he traded treasures, negotiated trade pacts, fought pirates, installed puppet kings, and brought back tribute for the Yongle Emperor in the form of jewels, medicines and exotic animals, among other things. He and his crew travelled and traded with not only with the city-states of what is now Indonesia and Malaysia, with Siam and India, but even with the Arabian ports of modern-day Yemen and Saudi Arabia, and as far as Somalia and Kenya. Zheng He had enormously large ships to fill large fleets of treasure and goods from trades, and he was known for that, the ships were about 440-538 feet long and 210 feet wide in size.