[Oberon]

This doesn’t prove squat about the Chinese being in Africa... it only proves that a Chinese coin was in Africa. Coins travel great distances from one hand to the next; it may have taken a hundred transactions for this coin to get from China to Africa.

[Red Badger]

I'd tend to agree with that statement.........

[dmz]

This doesn’t prove squat about the Chinese being in Africa... it only proves that a Chinese coin was in Africa. Coins travel great distances from one hand to the next; it may have taken a hundred transactions for this coin to get from China to Africa.

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So true. The presence of that one coin proves nothing.

However, are you of the belief that the Chinese did not make it to the west coast of Africa pre-Renaissance?

[Verginius Rufus]

It was already known that Cheng Ho's sixth expedition (1421-1422) had reached the coast of East Africa.

Cheng Ho was a Muslim who had been castrated by the Ming Chinese--so he isn't one of Obama's ancestors.