Here is a higher resolution of the featured map from the Harris Map Collection
Below is a Variation (and Interpretation) of the above map by David Allen Deal
Posted on 10/21/2009 5:49:35 PM PDT by BGHater
Here is a higher resolution of the featured map from the Harris Map Collection
Below is a Variation (and Interpretation) of the above map by David Allen Deal
Another BC thread, ping.
This site has some info and a photo of what may be ancient Chinese anchors in California.
http://www.cristobalcolondeibiza.com/2eng/2eng15.htm
Entirely possible. In fact I think the Americas were discovered multiple times.
Maybe, but how does it matter, other than for historical purposes?
I remember when I was visiting Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks many years ago, there was a plaque at one of those parks saying that Sequoia redwood trees only occur in three places on earth. One is central California (Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks), the other is Northern California and Southern Oregon, and the third is some place in China.
I wonder if early visitors to California brought back some cones or small trees to China?
Many people may have come here before Columbus, but he was the one developed permanent trading with the Americas. The world was a vastly different place after 10/12/1492, the same cannot be said of any previous visits from different explorers.
An interesting historical footnote, but that’s about it.
Entirely possible, the amusing thing is to hear from the ego/pride drive opinions that either support or deny these historical theories based on pre-conceived notions. Like the scientists who have the outcome of their experiments preordained in their construction.
Why not. But the Indians watched everybody come and go, come and go, until someone stayed. Chinese, Vikings, Kenyans, hello and goodbye.
We do know that at the time of the first Potrugese ships rounding the tip of africa the Chinese were there as well.
Nonsense. If one is navigating, i.e. traveling to a point represented on a chart or returning to a known location, a chronometer is an extremely valuable tool, but a calendar is useless. Polynesians successfully navigated the entire Pacific using nothing more than “stick maps” and a well developed lore. And to think that the Chinese were ignorant of astronomy and its usefulness is foolish.
Junk science?
Blam isn’t on this thread yet?? Huh??
CHILI PEPPERS"
The Chinese diet did not include hot sauces and peppers until they brought back chili pepeprs from Central American.
Agronomist have shown that while there were/are few cultivated peppers in the New World the Chinese grew and used selection techniques to produce over 500 varieties of hot peppers which were not of the New world but of Chinese invention. This is why much of their Southern cuisine is HOT!
Japan is labeled, 日本, just east of Korea. You can see that most everything is labeled a "country", 国. I'm not sure what the significance is of most of the notations, but along with the pictures of mountains, the character for mountain, 山, is quite prevalent.
How old is this map? The characters seem fairly modern to me.
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