page_title: Indian Ocean trade
section_title: Chinese travels
hierarchical_section_title: Indian Ocean trade / Chinese travels
caption_attribution_description: This navigational chart is one of the four stellar diagrams included in the Wubei Zhi, published in circa 1628. It appears in chapter 240, folio 24 r. The chart specifies the guiding stars enroute from Hormuz to Calicut.
context_page_description: Indian Ocean Trade has been a key factor in East–West exchanges throughout history. Long distance trade in dhows and proas made it a dynamic zone of interaction between peoples, cultures, and civilizations stretching from Java in the East to Zanzibar and Mombasa in the West. Cities and states on the Indian Ocean rim focused on both the sea and the land.
context_section_description: Chinese fleets under Zheng He crisscrossed the Indian Ocean during the early part of the 15th century. The missions were diplomatic rather than commercial, but many exchanges of gift and produces were made.
caption: Part of Zheng He's navigation map providing instruction for aligning ship to travel from Hormuz to Calicut, 1430
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