Dan Snow
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15,236 appearances
105 recordings
11 series
first heard Dec 2024
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Dan Snow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, as well as the grandiose building projects, irrigation, canal building.
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Would normal people in the countryside have noticed a difference in his reign?
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The Yong Liu Emperor's ambition for the Ming stretched far beyond China's borders.
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From fourteen oh five onwards he dispatched the great treasure fleets of Admiral Zhung Hu, vast diplomatic missions carrying Chinese goods and imperial gifts across Southeast Asia, India and Arabia, reaching as far as the coast of East Africa.
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This was decades before the grand voyages of Vasco Dalgama or Francis Drake.
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It's one of my favourite periods of maritime history, so I couldn't possibly do an episode on the Ming without mentioning it.
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This is Professor Craig Clinus from the University of Oxford.
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I've just been reading David Abelarthia's History of the Sea, and it we should say it's not quite like Christopher Columbus is heading out to the middle of nowhere on a wing in a prayer.
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There were quite established networks of trade and diplomacy, stretching right in the Indian Ocean, the South world of the South China Sea was more coherent, more connected than the Atlantic
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Right, Craig, you got that.
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That was gonna be my next question.
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So tell me, why do we remember these and regard them as some of the most extraordinary maritime exhibitions of all time?
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Tell me about the scale, the size of the ships, apart from anything else, and the number of them.
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There's seven of them.
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They extend initially in Southeast Asia in fourteen oh four, oh eight, oh nine.
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By the twenties, they're going to Africa.
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They're going to the what we'd now call the Red Sea, the Arabia.
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It is just extraordinary, the scale.
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They go to what is now Somalia, Mogadishu, Zanzibar, they bring back the animals I always think must be extraordinary.
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How do they try imagine transporting those camels, those rhinos all the way back from there?
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