The list of discoveries and technologies are staggering. 'The Year China Discovered America' is a nice tease. Gavin Menzies made it his life's work after retiring from the British Navy to find out. Where did they go? What much did they document? A great amount was destroyed by a later Emperor, but clues remain behind. Rational Explanations for Historical MysteriesĪfter a great celebration for the completion of the Forbidden City, the Ming Emperor Tzu Di sends out a great armada to return dignitaries to their home countries and gives the order that the fleets of Junks continue onward in exploration and charting. Our knowledge of world exploration as it has been commonly accepted for centuries must now be reconceived due to this landmark work of historical investigation. Unveiling incontrovertible evidence of these astonishing voyages, 1421 rewrites our understanding of history. Also concealed was how the Chinese colonized America before the Europeans and transplanted in America and other countries the principal economic crops that have fed and clothed the world. Lost in China's long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America 70 years before Columbus and had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. When it returned in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos.

Its mission was to 'proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas' and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony.

On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China.

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