[jimkress]

Is Gavin Menzies Right or Wrong? (Did the Chinese discover the western hemisphere?)

Who cares? It's not like history would change if one was correct and the other not. Their correctness or lack thereof is unimportant.

[SunStar]

If the Chinese discovered North America, why did they leave?

[Bohemund]

Ping

[Hodar]

...tantalizing aspects to his thesis, such as the strangely accurate pre-Columbian maps of parts of the Atlantic, as well as the biological evidence of pre-Columbian Old and New World contacts--that would not change the fact that it was the Europeans who colonized the new lands and came to dominate the globe.

From various documentaries on Columbus on Discovery, PBS and Fox, it was presented as not uncommon for fleets of ships to exchange and copy maps amonst themselves. Likewise, it would not be difficult to accept that various animals made the trek from Asia to other areas over a course of several decades, or centuries, circumstances outside of a single ship 'discovering' a new continent. It's an interesting idea, but without proof ...

[The Great RJ]

The Vikings beat them here anyway and they did leave archeological evidence.

[sharktrager]

Curious. If Columbus was using Chinese maps showing North America, why was he attempting to sail to the orient by going due west?

[T. P. Pole]

In the continuing series of rewriting history to exclude white Europeans, the author fails to mention one thing - when Columbus "discovered" America, it stayed discovered.

Nobody else had to come along and re-discover it later.

[SunkenCiv]

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