The Tsunami

The tsunami is a terrible thing.

Tsunamis are destructive waves caused by seafloor earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, seafloor landslides or meteorological changes. The speed of tsunamis is as high as 700 KM/k .

When a tsunami is near the coastline, it will be tens of meters high, to be a “water wall."

In history, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was very terrible.

December 26, 2004, there was an earthquake in India. The tsunami triggered by the earthquake even endangered coastal residents as far away as Somalia; 166,000 people died in Indonesia alone, more then 2 million people were homeless. It was the worst tsunami disaster in the world in more than 200 years.

The tsunami is about ten meters tall. It is so fast, maybe you haven’t recovered; you are caught up in the tsunami.

This is a sad historical event; I express my condolences to those are injured and homeless.

I learned these events from: https://zhidao.baidu.com

                                               Oct.29, 2019

                                                  Libby

Zhenghe Traveling to the West

Zhenghe was a minister of the Ming dynasty (About 1368 A.D~1644 A.D). In his whole life, the greatest thing he did is he traveled to the west. It happened in about 1405 A.D~1433 A.D

The Ming dynasty was the most powerful kingdom in the world when Zhenghe was young. Ming’s emperor wanted to get more money and technology, so he let Zhenghe travel to other kingdom by ship. Zhenghe took many kinds of technology and many things made in Ming to exchange.

Finally he came back to Ming kingdom. He traveled to Java, Sumatra, Sulu, Pahang, Zhenla, Guri, Siam, Pangkath, Adan, Tianfang, Zofal, Hurumus, Mudu Bung and more than 30 countries.

Ming’s emperor was happy. He awarded Zhenghe and he let he traveled again.

Zhenghe started his travel again. He traveled to others countries and exchanged their technologies and weapons. He traveled seven times. He died when he was in the last travel. He even traveled to Africa, he took many pieces of pottery to there.

Zhenghe’s traveling is greatness because he opened the door of the business between the countries. His traveling was the first time buying and selling between the countries of Asia, Europe and Africa.

I learned these event from:

https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%83%91%E5%92%8C%E4%B8%8B%E8%A5%BF%E6%B4%8B/23805?fr=aladdin

This website helped me learn about Zhenghe’s traveling.

David

October 13, 2019