No - anything but critical thinking!Why would they possibly want all documentation of the journey destroyed?
Also, if all documentation of the journey was burned, how can people be sure these voyages took place?
No - anything but critical thinking!Why would they possibly want all documentation of the journey destroyed?
Also, if all documentation of the journey was burned, how can people be sure these voyages took place?
Gavin Menzies' theory?This has been on the History Channel's Ancient Discoveries series twice.
What if, according to the book 1421, China had discovered America 71 years before Columbus? The theory's controversial. Some experts say that there's noway China could have done it. Others say that China had built a fleet of ocean-going junks that were as large as the Titanic. On what side of the debate
do come down on? Possible, or ASB?
Why would they possibly want all documentation of the journey destroyed?
Also, if all documentation of the journey was burned, how can people be sure these voyages took place?
References outside of Imperial Court documents? Archaeological remains?
Gavin Menzies' theory?
Put it this way: The idea of the Chinese being very vaugly aware of the Americas and conducting more exploration of the Pacific than genrally aknowlaged is plausible. The actual theory proposed by Menzies (i.e. The chinese conducting an utterly massive survey of the entire world in 1421 plus acchieving many feats [e.g. North West passage, exploration of Antarctica] centuries before better equiped European expeditions.) is plain bonkers and is based upon rather selective interprutation of rather minimal and unreliable evidence.
Why would they possibly want all documentation of the journey destroyed?
Also, if all documentation of the journey was burned, how can people be sure these voyages took place?
Gavin Menzies' theory?
Put it this way: The idea of the Chinese being very vaugly aware of the Americas and conducting more exploration of the Pacific than genrally aknowlaged is plausible. The actual theory proposed by Menzies (i.e. The chinese conducting an utterly massive survey of the entire world in 1421 plus acchieving many feats [e.g. North West passage, exploration of Antarctica] centuries before better equiped European expeditions.) is plain bonkers and is based upon rather selective interprutation of rather minimal and unreliable evidence.
^Menzies goes so far as to claim that when the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the "Indians" they interacted with were not Native Americans, but Chinese, and he claims to have found a Chinese settlement in Rhode Island. Not kidding.
Gavin Menzies' theory?
Put it this way: The idea of the Chinese being very vaugly aware of the Americas and conducting more exploration of the Pacific than genrally aknowlaged is plausible. The actual theory proposed by Menzies (i.e. The chinese conducting an utterly massive survey of the entire world in 1421 plus acchieving many feats [e.g. North West passage, exploration of Antarctica] centuries before better equiped European expeditions.) is plain bonkers and is based upon rather selective interprutation of rather minimal and unreliable evidence.
That seems about right. I like how Menzies has the Chinese going literally everywhere. Except Europe. Where there are, y'know, records.
I began reading 1421, but it just got too silly. Really, surviving ground sloths in South America transplanted in New Zealand by Chinese exploration fleets that somehow don't need supplies?