What would have happened if China discovered the New World?

[Civciv5]

What would have happened if China would have discovered the New World?

 

[christos200]

The united states of america would have been communists, europeans poor, christianity would have been replaced by budhhism and the natives americans may have survived.

 

[W|M]

Zheng He would become immortal and rule the world from his magic invisible space station which is orbiting Io, and would then shoot giant laser beams to Earth for fun.

 

[ParkCungHee]

The world would come to an end in 1830, with a great pop-up arising to announce it.

 

[Lord Baal]

Dude, they totally did discover the New World.

 

[WWTVICTOR]

Dude, they totally did discover the New World.

That's not something North-East-West-South already...the book sounds ridiculous actually.

It is impossible to travel through the Pacific ocean in Ming's time, they could discover America unless passing through the Atlantic Ocean, do you remember that the Spain were seeking for a route to link Philippines and Mexico up? Numerous ships sank and castastrophic casualities were made during the trip, they found the route after the sacrificial of several fleets.

 

[Lord Baal]

It's funny that the reasons you come up with for why that book is crap - and there are thousands - are some that aren't actually accurate.

 

[LightSpectra]

I wonder if there's a way we can combine every stupid history meme into one totem of catastrophic historiography. Zheng He discovering America, Unternehmen Seelöwe succeeding, Renaissance Humanists inventing ancient Rome, Franks and Anglo-Saxons being unilaterally barbaric, the prehistoric Korean super-empire, Prussia as proto-Nazis, almost anything a Balkan nationalist says, the Confederacy succeeding over tariffs and winning the Civil War because of some minor alteration at Gettysburg, Napoleon as a liberator forced into war by belligerent neighbors unable to accept a non-aristocrat king, Wilhelm II causing World War I, the Schlieffen Plan failing because Moltke's incompetence, Tibet always belonging to China, et al. It would be glorious, in a somewhat sickening way.

 

[Lord Baal]

I think you just gave Gavin Menzies a new book idea.

 

[WWTVICTOR]

I wonder if there's a way we can combine every stupid history meme into one totem of catastrophic historiography. Zheng He discovering America, Unternehmen Seelöwe succeeding, Renaissance Humanists inventing ancient Rome, Franks and Anglo-Saxons being unilaterally barbaric, the prehistoric Korean super-empire, Prussia as proto-Nazis, almost anything a Balkan nationalist says, the Confederacy succeeding over tariffs and winning the Civil War because of some minor alteration at Gettysburg, Napoleon as a liberator forced into war by belligerent neighbors unable to accept a non-aristocrat king, Wilhelm II causing World War I, the Schlieffen Plan failing because Moltke's incompetence, Tibet always belonging to China, et al. It would be glorious, in a somewhat sickening way.

There are approximately 11 or more irems, but nearly 6 or more of them are related to the West Europe... and we are focusing on China.

[just for fun ]

 

[Plotinus]

Moderator Action: Far too vague alt-history question just begging for the inevitable spam. If you're going to ask questions of this kind please be much more specific about the scenario you're envisaging and explain why it's plausible. Thread closed.