mogged
>>64672792>did nothing with it>retreated into their borders>stayed medieval until 19th centuryCringe.
bullshit image. Wooden ships can't be that big before they start to collapse themselves.
>>64672792>Hugged coasts nearly the whole time>Only time they went out of sight of the coast was to follow the incredibly safe and predictable Indian Ocean windsImplessive
feels like they might be overcompensating for something
>harbor/coast queen that did nothing of note other than be big
It would have been better to avoid the segmented and interlocking keels and ribs of wooden ships.
>>64672792eunuch
>>64672792>mogged
>>64672924>zhang unit
>>64672792Unironically bullshit not supported by any archeological evidence. It's like claiming the Ark somehow contained all of the animals on the world. The Duke of Wellington was almost half of this size and was one of the largest, documented wooden ships ever built. And even if we assume that this thing was really as large as was claimed by the Chinks, they also admit it just hugged the coast because any kind of actual rough seas would have caused it to collapse. Wooden ships had a pretty strict upper limit that was known as far back as the 1700's.
>>64672889So Kenya is on the coast of China?
>>64672953the opposite
>>64672813>>64672878>>64672889>>64672948>it should've promoted proto globalismhuh
>>64672965I never said that, take your projection elsewhere.
>>64672975*puts it on your desk*Oh I think I'll keep it right here, bucko.
>>64672965>the fundamental drive to master the natural world is globalismThis is why the global south has no expeditionary capacity.
As anons pointed out the eunuch ship size is likely made up, also Santa Maria is nowhere near the largest European ship of the period.
>>64672792>fake and gay chink propagandaA wooden ship beyond 300 feet in length is structurally unsafe.
>>64673050>chinks and russians care about safety
>>64672792>Chinese history>factualpick one
Certainly exaggerated, but still neat.
>>64672792They stuck decorative sails on a barge. No way in Hell was that thing seaworthy.
>>64672948Materials science also tells us that a ship of that size made of wood cannot support its own weight, there's a reason first rates never go much larger than the Victory
>>64672924Interesting. It seems that one Zhang was equal to the height of an average chinese man (Chang/Zhang). An analogue would be the western measurement unit "foot", the lenght of an average 14 th century man's foot.
>>64673100My brother had one of the 10-masters. Beautiful design, the pic doesn't get the scale across at all.
>>64673244Delusion is still easy to get. I got back into the game this year after forgetting bout it decades ago.
>>64672792it was that big because it was made out of flimsy paper mache
>>64673237It is a bit strange how 1 zhang went from being 1.5~1.6 meters (the average height of a chinese man) to 3.2 meters, twice the height of the original 1 zhang measurment.Is there any western measurement that was based on the average lenght of a human body part that for some reason over time got doubled? I myself cant really think of a example of that happening.
are the chinese really so weak they would come to an american site to brag about a boat from 600 years ago that may or may not have even been real?jesus christ how starved for you(s) are you? pathetic
