Posted on 02/13/2021 8:00:52 AM PST by rktman
Last summer I read an engrossing book entitled "1421: The Year China Discovered America" by Gavin Menzies, a retired British submarine lieutenant commander turned amateur archeologist. The book documented his efforts to demonstrate how a Chinese fleet of hundreds (perhaps thousands) of ships set sail in 1421 and circumnavigated the world, touching base everywhere from the Americas (North and South), Australia, Africa, Greenland, Europe, and all points between. The purpose of the expeditions, according to Menzies, was to chart the waters of the globe, impress and intimidate foreign rulers, and bring the entire world into China's "tribute system."
...during the years the voyagers were at sea and out of touch with their mother country, Imperial China's tumultuous and controversial régime changed, and its leaders (who commissioned the fleet) were deposed. The new incoming régime was rigidly insular. All foreign goods, services and trade were forcibly suppressed and – here's the critical part – expunged from the records. As with many cultural revolutions, the leaders wanted their reign to be "Year Zero" for history. The accomplishments of the previous rulers were not just unwelcome, they were downright dangerous to acknowledge.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Even now, the left is trying to scrub President Trump from history. We're watching it happen in real time.
We are witnessing a purge unprecedented in America, but widely repeated through world history during tyrannical régimes. Dissenting voices are silenced, religious expression is suppressed, statues are toppled, history is rewritten, and – most importantly – the education of children is strictly regulated.
And another reminder of a quote from the head 'naughtZee':
As Hitler so accurately observed, "When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side,' I calmly say, 'Your child belongs to us already. … What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."
And it's all happening in less time than you think.
Think "The great 'reset'".
‘Your child belongs to us already. … What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.”
“What are you ? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but the new community”.—Adolf Hitler, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer...page 249. My copy.
When the young people claim I am old and will soon die off I throw that quote at them.
Yeah, well, if they didn't recognize a gold mine when they saw one, tough.
James Marshall didn't "discover" gold. He may have stumbled across it but if he had just said, "Meh", and tossed it back in the water, tough noogies to him, too.
The Chinese explorer may have traveled around India to Africa. He did not visit North and South America.
Because they never happened.
Back then, few people outside of the far east had even heard of China.
While I like the premise, I have doubts about the historical timeline. According to The Penguin Atlas of World History, the Ming ruled China during the whole time of the voyage. The possible explanation could be that there were different Ming factions fighting for control of the Chinese domains.
China: a stagnant culture for five thousand years.
Did they start working on the RR then? NO!
Send that to Gavin Menzies.
Ha haaaaa! Zackly!
Actually, I’m surprised some Canadian or some Mexican didn’t discover America. All they would’ve had to do was stumble across the border or cut a
hole in the fence and, voila!, we’d all be taking a knee to O, Canada or La Cucaracha.
Everybody knows there's no such song as O, Canada!
Or even a country as Canada as far as we know.
Several years ago a relative of mine who lived in Toronto, Ont. sat in on history lectures at a local university. This was her first exposure to this aspect of history and she became intrigued by it to the extent she sent me a book about the Chinese fleet that circumnavigated the world prior to Columbus discovering America. The fleets course took them to India, then around the tip of south Africa (Cape of Good Hope) then north along the west coast of Africa. They crossed the Atlantic about 15 degrees north latitude, taking advantage of the Trade Winds. From there they followed the east coast of South America south, around Cape Horn, then north all the way to what is now San Francisco. Here they left behind a small settlement in the north east Bay area near what is now Vallejo, CA. The fleet returned to China greatly diminished in size, circumnavigating the globe at least a century before Magellan.
What is missed in these various “Who discovered America FIRST” is that there is bad wording (word choice) and an impossible task within the same sentence!
Taking the second argument first, there is always someone to speculate his/her favorite ‘explorer’ and there will always be the real possibility of someone ‘earlier’, so this effort is disproving a negative! You say ‘A’ discovered first? Prove that ‘A’ was first!
However the above is MOOT and will only interest the enthusiasts! For the purposes of a PERMANENT DISCOVERY, the answer is, and will always be, Christopher Columbus! Every other claimant ENCOUNTERED America but had no PERMANENT results!
The best pre-Columbus candidates, based upon length of encounter, were the Icelandic/Scandinavian discoverers of Greenland & Vinland, Eric “the Red” Thorvaldsson, his Greenland Settlers and his Vinland discovering son, Lief Erikson. While the Newfoundland settlement was brief, the Greenland settlement lasted ~500 years (1000-1500) before dying out.
Columbus, while delusional about landing in Asia, still started a permanent link between the Americas and Europe. No one else can make that claim and thus no one else ‘discovered’ the Western Hemisphere!
LOL! I’m good with those comments.
Maybe requiring more consideration should be the word “discover”. Seems like a bunch of folks “discovered” this continent when they crossed the Aleutian land bridge* so long ago creating the “indigenous” people in north and south America? Just sayin’. LOL!
*No doubt open for discussion my some folks.
“1421: The Year China Discovered America” is garbage.
But then, God would've intervened and said, "Yeah, no. This is how I want events to transpire.".
> For the purposes of a PERMANENT DISCOVERY
It’s not permanent yet ;-)
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