The evidence for Pacific Islander exploration and settlement of America (at least South and Central America) is much more compelling than for what is being claimed here about the Chinese.
One thing I noticed near the end of the show when the host was talking to a Chinese ‘map expert” was how the “expert” pointed out map detail that Europeans didn’t possess at the time this Chinese map was supposedly made. The Appalachian mountains were labeled, and the ‘expert’ translated the Chinese text into a word that sounded very close to Appalachia (appachia, or something like that? I can’t remember). But the problem with this is that the first to use the term to describe the mountain range were the Spanish, and the name came from a small Indian Tribe around Tallahassee. The name had no connection to the mountain range until the Spanish began to use this tribal name to describe an ever expanding region - which eventually became the region we know today as Appalachia.
Obviously this Chinese word that sounds like Appalachia was derived from the Spanish term. The odds that the Chinese would chose the same name as the Spanish are slim to none - considering that the name doesn’t really have much connection with the region any way. That’s the problem with forgeries. It ‘s difficult to come up with one that doesn’t betray itself with inconsistencies like this.
-—Tallahassee——
Well, now an opportunity to entertain the subject of the prefix Talla. We have Tallahassee and Talladega and Kirk Monro’s main character Rene Laudonniere who was called by the indians Ta-lah-lo-ko
Who in Freeper land knows what the prefix Talla refers to?
A favorite book since childhood describes the real French colonial effort near Jacksonville Florida. It id The Flamingo Feather by Kirk Monro
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15746/15746-h/15746-h.htm#chap04