1421: The Year China Discovered the World

[Ahovking]

In this book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World concludes that only China had the time, money, manpower and leadership to send such expeditions and then sets out to prove that the Chinese visited lands unknown in either China or Europe. He claims that from 1421 to 1423, during the Ming Dynasty of China under Emperor Zhu Di (朱&#26851 the fleets of Admiral Zheng He (鄭&#21644, commanded by the Chinese captains Zhou Wen (周&#32862, Zhou Man (周&#28415, Yang Qing (楊&#24950, and Hong Bao (洪&#20445, discovered Australia, New Zealand, the Americas, Antarctica, and the Northeast Passage; circumnavigated Greenland, tried to reach the North and South Poles, and circumnavigated the world before Ferdinand Magellan.

On some early European world maps, it appears that someone had charted and surveyed lands supposedly unknown to the Europeans. Who could have charted and surveyed these lands before they were "discovered"?

1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
In 2008 Menzies released a follow-up publication titled 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance. In it Menzies claims that by 1434 Chinese delegations reached Italy and were in some way responsible for the Renaissance. He claims that a letter written in 1474 by Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli and found amongst the private papers of Columbus indicates that an earlier Chinese ambassador had direct correspondence with Pope Eugene IV in Rome.

Could this be possible? if not why the Chinese time, money, manpower and leadership to send such expeditions, there's has been maps found with the out lines of north and south America, Australia and Africa. the Chinese envoys had been sailing into the Indian Ocean since the late 2nd century BC so for them to set sail a little more to the south to Australia or maybe est to America ? as we know today Indonesian and the Philippines were filled with Spice's so then why wouldn't china go more south in search of wealth and Spice's to reach Australia ?

So could this be possible ?

 

[Dachs]

It could be possible in the sense that George Washington could have been an alien sent by the Mothership to create a paradise on Earth for all of the good little boys and girls. Or that the real reason for the Roman Empire's success and existence could have been its rachni shock troops.

 

[LightSpectra]

Or that the real reason for the Roman Empire's success and existence could have been its rachni shock troops.

That's obviously absurd. Rachni can only communicate with biotics, which humans didn't have until we discovered eezo.

Unless Zheng He discovered eezo first...

 

[Masada]

That's obviously absurd. Rachni can only communicate with biotics, which humans didn't have until we discovered eezo.

Obviously, we need to push the date back to fit the narrative.

 

[innonimatu]

Hey hey hey, stop that defamation of the great Zheng He, he wasn't an alien! Menzies is a great historian, the only improvement he could possibly do on his book would be to correct his description of Zheng He and his armada as chinese. Zheng He was really a black african from Egypt, as the phonetics of his name should show!

 

[Karalysia]

1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance

So that's a real book. I always thought it was a parody of the original. Well then.

Alright here's mine: 1593 The Year the Immortal Emperor Sailed His Fleet to the Moon and Created a Lunar Empire

 

[LightSpectra]

It's amazing how the Chinese started the Italian Renaissance by sailing there two centuries after it had already begun. It's like how I won World War II by being born four decades later.

 

[Glassfan]

Has the comic book version come out yet?

 

[Masada]

It's amazing how the Chinese started the Italian Renaissance by sailing there two centuries after it had already begun. It's like how I won World War II by being born four decades later.

We've already established that linear cause and effect is a lie, instead history wiggles - sometimes the effect - the Renaissance - happens before the cause - Chinese arrival. I mean seriously, do I have to explain basic psuedo-history to you?!

 

[Tee Kay]

 

[Knight-Dragon]

This is going nowhere...

Closed.