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he East Rome Empire Dang Dynasty Du Huan By boat China Song Dynasty the Africans By boat A bronze statue of a lion China Ming Dynasty Zhenghe By fleet giraffes,zebras, shells, elephant ivory… Africa Indiathe middle eastRome Silk road coasts of India OceanCeylon(Sri Lanka) 1. Why did people of the Han Dynasty know about Africa? 2. What happened to the Swahili kingdoms and the islands off the African coast after Gan Ying’s travel? Ceylon, was the place where Chinese merchants met with Arab merchants and heard about the westernmost lands. They developed into the world’s trading center for ivory, spices,rhinoceros horns and so on. 4. What led to the meeting between black people and a Chinese? 5. Who was Du Huan? What did he write? 6. What did it mean after the Africans made voyages to the court of the Song Dynasty? 7. How many fleets? What was Zhenghe’s sea route? What presents did the Ming court give Africa? The Arabic contacts to the African coast . He was taken prisoner by the Arabic army. He wrote his Record of My Travels. It was a major development tha