[etcetera]

China has long considered Canada a breakaway province and has threatened military action should independence be declared. 8-)

[Bluegrass Conservative]

I still maintain, how can you "discover" a place that has inhabitants? Methinks some group of nomadic Mongols discovered North American many centuries before either one of these guys on a landbridge through the Bering Sea.

[bahblahbah]

Who cares, apparently the Chinese didn't find it good enough to come back. Leif Erikson was here too in 1000 AD and that really doesn't matter either. People actually came back after Columbus.

[An Old Marine]

Huh, So what...

[Sthitch]

I have read 1421: The Year China Discovered the World and he did not say that Zheng He discovered North America, he did speculate that another admiral might have. He offered some evidence, but it was not anything that is too convincing, mostly pottery and weaving styles found in South America that were similar to those found in China.

[bahblahbah]

What about the Phoenicians?

http://phoenicia.org/brazil.html

[G.Mason]

Hillarity put me in touch with Christopher Columbus and he told me that he is unconcerned about this.

Seems he is off on new explorations in the galaxy, where he is being paid a hefty stipend by the representatives of the astronauts that planted the flag on Mars.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

It has massive walls…and it’s two-thirds the size of the Forbidden City…Walls, roads, the remains of foundations, graves, God-knows what.

And it's invisible.

Wonder if he found their Pacific Fleet base yet?

[Malsua]

You know this is a load of BS.

The Article said Zheng He was 8 foot tall.

He's Chinese. Ever see an 8 foot Tall Chinaman? Even Yao is only 7'6".

[Paleo Conservative]

No one ever had to discover America again after Columbus discovered it.

[BBell]

An interesting article. I can't wait until they reveal this City to the public.

[FormerACLUmember]

This is pure fiction.

[MosesKnows]

1421: The Year China Discovered the World

The good Commander does not realized that it matters little who discovered what first; what matters is who made it stick.

"In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue," will not likely be replaced with "In 1421, China was the one".

Columbus was the world's first democrat. When he left Spain, he didn't know where he was going. When he arrived in North America, he didn't know where he was. And when he got home, he didn't know where he had been. And he did it all on borrowed money.

[SunkenCiv]

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