Zheng He
Born: 1371 Died: 1435 Nationality: China Zheng He, was a Hui court eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral during China's early Ming dynasty. Zheng commanded expeditionary voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, Western Asia, and East Africa from 1405 to 1433. Roughly 600 years ago, Zheng He weighed anchor in Nanjing, on the first of seven epic voyages as far west as Africa—almost a century before Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas and Vasco da Gama's