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Around 1453, which empire sent the traveler Cheng Ho on a number of voyages throughout the Indian Ocean basin?

A. Ming dynasty
B. Aztec empire
C. French kingdom
D. White Sheep Turkomans

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The answer is A. Cheng Ho (Also known as Zheng He) was a famous Chinese administrator sent by the Ming emperor to collect tributes from other nations, travelling by a ship throughtout the Indian Ocean Basin.
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Cheng Ho (also known as Zheng He) was a Chinese explorer (and also an eunuch): so the only possible answer is A (this is also a correct answer).

The other options don't refer to China: Aztecs are in America, French in Europe and Turkomans in the Caucasus.
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