Posted on 07/21/2004 10:00:24 AM PDT by SteveH
*ping*
"a theory that could"
Four words that usually precede the rewriting of history.
The problem with Chinese explorers is that after you explore you want to explore again soon after.
It's been said that history is rewritten by the conquerer.
What, is China trying to get a little head-start?
I was under the impression that the Western hemisphere had been discovered almost 20,000 years earlier by nomads.
Otherwise no one would have been living here when the chinese/spanish arrived :)
So why aren't there pogodas throughout California.
Columbus told the world about the results of his exploration and it changed the world. The Chinese may have gotten here before him - and after the Vikings - but their arrival is only meaningful as a curiousity. Columbus' expedition, and those who followed him, mattered.
A number of South American early cultures have markedly Asian looking art and jade figures and ornaments..a number of scupted heads that look very oriental. Personally, I think early man traveled far more extensively than we imagine, and in the absence of satellite dishes and cell phones ended up in places from which they couldn't return home.
Chinese discover America. Decide it is not worth mentioning.
Don't order number 3 it tastes like number 2.
There are many places where China claims to have been there "first." The problem is that is the excuse used to occupy those places...
So thats why we have so many chinese eateries on the wast coast. LOL
Ops4 God BLess America!
I think chirac discovered America when he was a young man 700 years ago.
I personally believe that many explorers got here throughout the centuries. Columbus got here a few decades after the invention of the printing press. Timing matters.
Whoop de doo. Didn't Leif Erikkson discover America before even that? Like him, even if this story is true, it amounts to Jack and Spit. Nothing came of Erikkson's trip, and if this is true, then nothing came of the Chinese's trip. Something, however, DID come of Columbus' voyage. That's the only thing that matters.
All I did was ping blam to the thread. Where have I given ANY opinion about it? blam happens to be a history buff.
Hadn't heard that one...muslim explorers discovered America, eh?
And I bet Apollo astronauts found Islamic black battle flags on the Moon in '69, and we're keeping it a secret.
Sorry. I meant to respond to post 1, not yours, which is 2.
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