Columbus’s ship vs Zheng He’s Treasure ship
March 21, 2010 | In: Videos
View of model in Nanjing at site of Ming Dynasty shipyard where Admiral Zheng He’s ships were built.
March 21, 2010 | In: Videos
View of model in Nanjing at site of Ming Dynasty shipyard where Admiral Zheng He’s ships were built.
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25 Responses to Columbus’s ship vs Zheng He’s Treasure ship
ikbosje
March 21st, 2010 at 7:50 am
If Zheng-He discovered America first, 120 million native american indians would still be alive till end of 19 century.
ikbosje
March 21st, 2010 at 8:27 am
Columbus enslaved/murdered a entire continent solely for the purpose of GOLD.
Unlike Emperor Yongle who had the potential to discover America, distributed his treasures among the newly discovered countries.
holkn
March 21st, 2010 at 9:14 am
ever heard of pirates? Those cannons were used to fend off pirates
NoOne3234
March 21st, 2010 at 10:01 am
Santa Maria rigging is a tad off.
lifes40123
March 21st, 2010 at 10:39 am
zheng he had 300 ships compared to less than 5 comlumbus ships and zheng he’s ship could have tottaly owned columbus. so china could have own europe for a moment
highvoltage47
March 21st, 2010 at 10:59 am
HI MRS. MOHAN!!!!
Ironzealot7531
March 21st, 2010 at 11:54 am
the ship is semi-legendary anyway, there is little in the way of solid historical evidence confirming its existence
even chinese naval historians admit that if the ship did exist, it was much smaller than has been purported
m0rttal
March 21st, 2010 at 12:48 pm
The reason the ship could be built to this size partly is due to all the seal compartments that the ship have. And the type of wood is of the highest quality extremely hard wood.
m0rttal
March 21st, 2010 at 1:19 pm
false Ironzealot7531, chinese Junks have seal compartments means if one part of the ship is flooded the ships still can stay afload the design was inspired by bamboo which has several sealed compartment, the western ships using seal compartment is the TITANIC… you see how far ahead the chinese are at its time in ship technology?
pixelsilva
March 21st, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Off corse you are talking about… Portuguese Admiral Ferdinand Magellan murdered at the edge of the water in Macatan in 1521…
….and 260 years later, in 1784 another European admiral suffered the same fate a little bit far east on the volcanic beach of Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii…. British Captain James Cook was also murdered in the same fashion while trying to land.
reaperonlineIAM
March 21st, 2010 at 2:17 pm
well at least this chinese explorer wasn’t killed by some local tribe leader in some backwater region in southeast asia. unlike some arrogant european explorer out there that got his ass kicked by outdated tribesmen with bamboo spears and etc.
smithwood233
March 21st, 2010 at 2:58 pm
Wow! This is huge. Seems like a carrier of its day,…with support ships and stuffs, seems like a carrier group, so to speak.
Aydee2020
March 21st, 2010 at 3:58 pm
why the hell must they compare with santa maria?why not the ruse or endeavour?
Ironzealot7531
March 21st, 2010 at 4:14 pm
huh?
actually the vast majority of those living in former spanish colonies are of majority european blood(inlcuding mexico)
Ironzealot7531
March 21st, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Zheng He’s ships weren’t combat ships, they were more like the luxury yachts of their day
they’re of a pretty unsturdy and vulnerable design, and it probably woulnd’t have taken much to sink them
Ironzealot7531
March 21st, 2010 at 4:54 pm
WHAT!?
that’s absolutely absurd. No wooden vessel(especially a flat bottomed one) could possibly be sea worthy at those dimensions
even the most grandiose estimates of the ship’s size puts it at 200 meters in legnth, and even this is highly unrealistic.
Modern naval engineers project the size to be probably a quarter of what is claimed in the histories
Ironzealot7531
March 21st, 2010 at 5:32 pm
these design of chinese junks were paper thin and flat bottomed. They were designed for slow travel in calm shallow waters.
They would be rolled over in the high seas
Ironzealot7531
March 21st, 2010 at 6:28 pm
the size of Zheng He’s treasure ships is greatly exaggerated in chinese chronicles. A vessel of that size and of that design wouldn’t even have been seaworthy
modern naval engineers believe that the treasure ships were only 59 meters long, rather that the 200+ meters they are claimed to be in the chinese chronicles
signorellil
March 21st, 2010 at 6:31 pm
They had actual stern post rudders (which, by the way, created the necessity of “maintenance crews” to keep them workable during navigation). The Treasure Fleet had in fact support ships, water tanks ships etc. Awesome if you this it was in the early 1400’s!!!!
starlandliu
March 21st, 2010 at 7:11 pm
The Year China Discovered The World
btown2345
March 21st, 2010 at 8:11 pm
How did they steer?
hadi0550
March 21st, 2010 at 8:52 pm
COLUMBUS was a CONFUSED idiot. He thought the AMERICAN INDIAN was INDIAN from INDIA. HAHAHAHHAHAH…What an IDIOT!!
segregator236
March 21st, 2010 at 9:35 pm
There was a theory that it was the Chinese that discovered pretty much most of today’s world (including the Americas)
dragondescent
March 21st, 2010 at 10:01 pm
Columbus got lost, Zheng He didn’t.
Zheng He completed his missions, Columbus never completed what he set out to do Columbus supposed to find a sea route to Asia
hoodbeastlybeast
March 21st, 2010 at 10:25 pm
That is not Columbus’s ship; it’s a clipper
Santa Maria was a nao/nau and the other two were caravels