Friday, March 22, 2019
At your table groups, you will analyze all of the documents of the DBQ "Should we celebrate the voyages of Zheng He" and list the reasons to celebrate and reasons not to celebrate:

Zheng He’s Voyages

Reasons to celebrate	Documents that support this
huge fleet	Documents B and C
sailed before Columbus	Document B
cleaned up Indian Ocean	Document E
showed China's greatness traveled more than 100,000 miles	Document D Document A
Reasons not to celebrate	Documents that support this
didn't discover anything, sailed established trade routes	Document A
no historical legacy	Document B
he spent more than he received	Document D
trusted fortune tellers murderer extorted tributes from lesser countries used number of soldiers to possibly intimidate	Document C Document E Document E Document C

Then you will find evidence in those documents that supports the reasons.
Next, you will write the introductory paragraph for your argumentative essay on the DBQ "Should the voyages of Zheng He be celebrated?" Go to Google Classroom for the worksheet.