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Specific term required. A “hybrid” tradition of these objects thrived in Martaban, whose nakhodas contracted them to kiwis in a commenda system regulated by Sultan Mahmud Shah’s code. “Commoner’s” types of these objects were contrasted with those from official bureaus, whose Muslim superintendent Pú Shòugēng (“poo sho-gung”) offered them to invading Mongols. Nomads who relied on these objects were stigmatized as “egg families,” or Tanka. Guǎngdōng’s “Crystal Palace” (-5[1])exhibits one of these objects from the Southern Sòng, (-5[1])when they and smaller sampans (10[1])were made impervious (10[1])with tung oil putty for the Silk Routes between (10[2])Quánzhōu (-5[1])(“chwen-joh”) and Nánhǎi (10[1]-5[2])(“nahn-hye”). These objects were burned by 1525 (10[1])to enforce (-5[1])a series (10[1])of anti-wōkòu (10[1])(“woh-koh”) bans. 30,000 (10[2])troops staffed one of the six imposing (-5[1])groups of them dispatched by the (-5[1])Yǒnglè (“yohng-luh”) Emperor. For 10 points, what vessels (10[1]-5[1])with (-5[1])watertight (10[2])bulkheads (10[1])and battened rigs included Zhèng Hé’s (“jung huh’s”) “treasure (10[1])ships”? (10[1])■END■ (10[7])

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