[Jewels1091]

personally, I don't believe alot of what China says...what do they think, we'll give them this country?

[CJ Wolf]

"It is a copy, made in 1763, of a map, dated 1418, which contains notes that substantially match the descriptions in the book."

Perhaps it was an update to reflect the accurate current map of the time. Not a direct copy of a nonexistent map.

Never seen such a fluff piece for the CCP.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Columbus found the New World in 1492;

And Leif Ericson was there almost a 500 years earlier.

[GodfearingTexan]

too bad. columbus called it first.

[Capriole]

How would Chinese explorers--or any explorers of the fifteenth century--have known that the Northwest Passage existed, when it was beneath near-impenetrable ice?

[NordP]

LEIF ERIKSON! ;-)

[Captainpaintball]

I have been saying this for years. Not that China actually is correct about having discovered anything, but the fact that they have been making wild claims about being the first in history in a variety of areas.

This is a rewrite or embellishment of history in direct proportion and relation to their emergence as a world megapower. A history to match--and a history worthy of-- their present, in other words.

[DB]

"It is a copy, made in 1763, of a map, dated 1418"

Hmmm...

Dan Rather has a copy, made in 2004, of a memo, dated 1972...

And we know all about that... The Chinese learn fast... We'll not so fast...

[Jack Hammer]

Admittedly no expert, but this sounds suspiciously like a lot of multi-culti wishful thinking. If the Chinese navy couldn't handle the trips to Japan in 1274 and 1281, it's unlikely they'd be sailing across the wide Pacific to North America a scant 150 years later.

[darth]

While I am convinced that various ancient mariners arrived in the New World before Columbus (Vikings, Japanese fishing vessels blown across the Pacific by storms, etc.), there is a key piece of evidence missing. If Old World ships came to the Americas on any kind of regular basis where are the non-native crops and livestock? Pigs and horses thrived in the wild after introduction by the Europeans. Crops from the New World (corn, tobacco, potatoes) would have found their way back to the Old World. Therefore, I conclude that voyages were very limited in number. The Chinese map has too much detail and would have required multiple voyages.

[TexanToTheCore]

It's a fake.

[F16Fighter]

The Neanderthals actually had first dibs on discovering America (a skull and map etched on a piece of shale "prove" it.)

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