上海交通大学通识核心课程“历史视野下的美国文化”结业论文 杰出的航海家 Significant Navigators 洛绒巴登环境科学与工程学院环境科学与工程专业5111619028 中文摘要：十五世纪初开创的“世界大航海”运动，标志人类活动开始走向海洋，实现 了全球性的地理大发现。航海使人类真正意义上认识了世界，是推动人类文明进步的伟大事 业。随着航海的发展，一些沿海先民为探索新世界，离开本土，漂洋过海，推动了世界性的 航海移民，进行了空前规模的“人类大迁徙”。正是通过航海移民，建立了许多沿海国家， 奠定了全球性的人类分布与世界社会格局。 伟大的航海事业当然离不开一批杰出的航海家，这批航海家中尤其以“七下西洋的郑和” 和“发现美洲大陆的哥伦布”为人所敬仰。本文将介绍两位来自不同文化背景的航海家之间 的“碰撞”。比较两个船队航海的时间、航线、规模、目的.以及两个船队航海的结果与影 响。 关键词：大航海时代航海意义时代背景引发潮流 Abstract:The world great navigation revolutionary,which occurred at the beginning of 15th century,signify that human beings began to move toward the ocean,and achieved an enormous global geographical discovery.Navigation makes human beings truly know the world and is also a great progress to promote the civilization of human.Along with the development of navigation,some coastal ancestors left their homes and crossed the ocean to explore new worlds,which lead to the global sailing of immigrants.It is through navigation immigrant that established many coastal countries and laid the foundation for global human distribution and world social structure. The great maritime career is certainly inseparable from a bunch of outstanding navigator.Among them,Zhenghe who explored the ocean for上海交通大学通识核心课程“历史视野下的美国文化”结业论文 杰出的航海家 Significant Navigators 洛绒巴登 环境科学与工程学院 环境科学与工程专业 5111619028 中文摘要：十五世纪初开创的“世界大航海”运动，标志人类活动开始走向海洋，实现 了全球性的地理大发现。航海使人类真正意义上认识了世界，是推动人类文明进步的伟大事 业。随着航海的发展，一些沿海先民为探索新世界，离开本土，漂洋过海，推动了世界性的 航海移民，进行了空前规模的“人类大迁徙”。正是通过航海移民，建立了许多沿海国家， 奠定了全球性的人类分布与世界社会格局 。 伟大的航海事业当然离不开一批杰出的航海家，这批航海家中尤其以“七下西洋的郑和” 和“发现美洲大陆的哥伦布”为人所敬仰。本文将介绍两位来自不同文化背景的航海家之间 的“碰撞”。比较两个船队航海的时间、航线、规模、目的.以及两个船队航海的结果与影 响。关键词：大航海时代 航海意义 时代背景 引发潮流 Abstract: The world great navigation revolutionary，which occurred at the beginning of 15th century，signify that human beings began to move toward the ocean, and achieved an enormous global geographical discovery. Navigation makes human beings truly know the world and is also a great progress to promote the civilization of human. Along with the development of navigation, some coastal ancestors left their homes and crossed the ocean to explore new worlds, which lead to the global sailing of immigrants. It is through navigation immigrant that established many coastal countries and laid the foundation for global human distribution and world social structure. The great maritime career is certainly inseparable from a bunch of outstanding navigator. Among them,Zhenghe who explored the ocean for