Question

This explorer navigated using a strip map collected in a military treatise with a 24-point compass. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this explorer who legendarily brought back a giraffe from Malindi.
ANSWER: Zhèng Hé (“jung huh”) [or Ma He; accept Cheng-ho; prompt on Zheng]
[10e] Zhèng Hé used the Máo Kūn map on his seven “treasure voyages” for this Chinese dynasty, which was succeeded by the Qīng dynasty.
ANSWER: Míng dynasty [or Míng China; accept Great Míng; accept the Míng treasure voyages]
[10h] The Wàn lì Emperor of the Míng dynasty commissioned two of this man’s companions to create a world atlas called the Zhifang Waiji (“jurr-fong why-jee”). This man created a Chinese map referred to as an “impossible black tulip.”
ANSWER: Matteo Ricci [or Matthaeus Riccius]
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Cornell CNYU A1010020
VassarNYU B010010
Penn ARowan A1010020
Princeton AHaverford010010
Princeton BBard A1010020
Rutgers BYale C010010
Yale ARutgers A1010020
Yale BPenn B1010020
Columbia AColumbia B10101030