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The Ming Dynasty's Great Withdrawal: How China Chose Isolation Over Global Dominance
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- Zheng He's fleet (1405–1433): 300+ ships, reached East Africa — 60 years technologically ahead of Portuguese exploration - The 1433 halt: internal court politics (Confucian bureaucrats vs. eunuch exploration faction) ended the voyages permanently - Haijin sea ban: Zheng He's records burned, large ship blueprints destroyed — deliberate institutional forgetting - The counterfactual: Ming withdrawal created the power vacuum Portugal, Spain, Netherlands, and Britain filled for the next 500 years
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