What items did Zheng He and his Star Fleet bring back from Africa?
1.ostriches
2.zebras
3.ivory
4.giraffes

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Zheng He's fleets visited Arabia, East Africa, India, Indonesia and Thailand (at the time called Siam), dispensing and receiving goods along the way.12 Zheng He presented gifts of gold, silver, porcelain and silk; in return, China received such novelties as ostriches, zebras, camels, ivory and giraffes.
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information quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_he

Was Zheng He, a Chinese Muslem?
Yes he was a muslim
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Although his precise religious views were not recorded, Zheng He has been portrayed by subsequent generations as either an orthodox Muslim who helped spread his faith into southeast Asia, or as a possible syncretist. The Galle Trilingual Inscription set up by Zheng He around 1410 in Sri Lanka records offerings he made at a Buddhist mountain temple.7 In around 1431, he set up a commemorative pillar at the temple of the Taoist goddess Tian Fei, the Celestial Spouse, in Fujian province, to whom he and his sailors prayed for safety at sea.
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information quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_he
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