Lost was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. This documentary examines the controversial theory that a Chinese Ming Dynasty fleet, led by Zheng He, sailed past the Cape of Good Hope and crossed the.
The great ships rotted at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. : 1421: The Year China Discovered America (9780060537630) by Menzies, Gavin and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books. When they returned Zhu Di lost control and China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. The journey would last over two years and circle the globe. Their mission was ‘to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas’ and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. Lost in Chinas long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America 70 years before Columbus & had. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the finest teak, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di’s loyal eunuch admirals. history forever - that Chinese admirals discovered America and Chinese junks first circled. As the name suggests, the book postulates that Chinese sailors discovered the land of North America in 1421, more than 70 years before Christopher Columbus landed on the continent. “…On the 8th of March, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. 1421: The Year China Discovered America, PBS Video, 040474. In 2002, British author Gavin Menzies published a book titled 1421: The Year China Discovered America. 1421: The Year China Discovered the World
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