china test

Sea explorer who sailed to the Indian Ocean

Zheng He

Why was it important that he traveled to Mecca?

Diplomatic and personal religious reasons

A. Kept Muslim advisors, not Confucian scholars

Continued use of foreign experts from the Mongol period

B. Kept Beijing (Mongol capital) as the capital

Maintained the Mongol choice of political center

C. Built the Forbidden City

Continued the Mongol tradition of imperial palace complexes in the capital

D. Kept the Mongol navy—sent Zheng He on voyages (1405–1433)

Used the powerful Mongol-style naval forces for exploration

Region the founders of the Qing Dynasty came from

Manchuria

Hairstyle they made the Chinese wear

Queue (the “q”)

Commodity the British introduced that started a war

Opium

Gift Zheng He brought back to the Emperor

A giraffe