1) The purpose of Zheng He voyage was to go and make the manifest of the transforming power of virtue and treat people with kindness. I am not very sure but would that be something of trade or trying to make pece with some of the barbaric countries that they have to visit?
2) A tribute would consist of giving someone, in this case the emperor of China things that have value, great importance and are rare. One of such things was a giraffe sent to the emperor from Africa.
3) The account of the voyage is written down on a stele at the temple to the goddes the Celestial Spouse at Changle in Fujian province in 1431.
4) Other perspective of Eastern Africa can be found in Ibn Battutah, Fei Xin’s, and Duarte Barbosa.
5)The city of Mecca is mentioned in Ibn Battutah and Fei Xin, they are probably related by the trade routes and religious reasons.
6) The political authority is represented by, however I am not very sure, by the father-in-law and the elder’s. the elders have gifts brought to them, and in the case of father-in-law, the son-in-law has to agree to whatever the father-in-law says in order for him to
7) The goods that were traded to and from East coast of Africa were onion, garlic, dired fruits, gold, silver, satins, silk, rice, beans and china-ware, pepper, sandal-wood, coloured taffetas, fish, etc.
