Java became Zheng He's 2nd stop


Java became the Treasure Ship second stop after 3 weeks. Zheng He had mediated and helped to unite the eastern and the western states of Java.  The states were at war. He had made the king of the West Java to repent to unite with East Java.

The king of West Jave was greatful and preseved good relations with the Ming Dynasty.

Native empires had existed before the 16th century when Portuguese traders first arrived but  soon outsted by the Dutch and the English. Though in prehistoric times, the eastern islands of Indonesia wer probably joined with Australia and the western islands were probably in one piece with Asia, Java is one of the six main islands. The others being, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and excetera.  

Majority of the population live in Java and there are some 30 different languages with some 250 dialects used in Indonesia.

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read about Zheng He 1371 - 1433, or the Little Boats of Zheng He, or the 3 Treasures Eunuch, Sanbao, and how Zheng He promoted Melaka.


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