1421 craziness aside, having ancient Chinese ships end up settling in New Zealand sound like a promising idea. Though judging by the sea currents map they might as well go to SE Asia, or northern Australia.
I always like "What if China discovers Antarctica?" because it would be completely useless but a hell of an effort
AND we'd have Chinese penguins
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Grey Wolf
I always like "What if China discovers Antarctica?" because it would be completely useless but a hell of an effort
AND we'd have Chinese penguins
Best Regards
Grey Wolf
That's interesting. What do you think would be different without the Mongol conquests?I think the Ming period gets a lot of attention because there is a lot of information on it. But in my reading I have found snippets of info on earlier periods, I`ve read that during the Song period 200 foot 4 masted ocean going junks were around. It is probably on the groundwork laid by the these ships in the past that allowed the Ming to build the Treasure Fleet and know where they were going and for what purpose.
And discovered the Tsalal instead??
Marc A
The Emperor Penguins would have sided with the KMT, which could have swung the balance against Mao, imo