What if China and/or Japan had discovered The New World hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus or Leif Erikson?
Post ideas, flags and/or maps.
Post ideas, flags and/or maps.
Urusai[InFi];2246485 said:they did, read 1421.
And here is a good one: http://www.1421exposed.com/They didn't, read any serious criticism of said work.
Neither China nor Japan really had an incentive (or in Japan's case the resources) to try and colonize the Americas. China got all of the exploration it wanted with Zheng He's travels, and then looked inward, while Japan was pretty much isolationist and for hundreds of years, the construction of blue-water ships was strictly prohibited.
But if Zheng He had taken a different turn and had somehow managed to land at the Americas, the chinese would probably just be disappointed by the lack of Native civilization in california to give tehm tribute, and would have jsut left. If they find some reason to stay, they probably will leave within a few hundred years. Otherwise you'll just have a chinese popoulation in California like we do today.
Urusai[InFi];2249261 said:Right, Confucianists trading with people's who actively participate in Human sacrifice.
I share the general consensus about that book: that its central thesis is highly dubious at best, and that its methodology is deeply flawed. It's a work of speculation rather than history.Urusai[InFi];2246485 said:they did, read 1421.
An unusual variety of chicken that has its origins in South America is the araucana, bred in southern Chile by Mapuche people. Araucanas, some of which are tailless and some of which have tufts of feathers around their ears, lay blue-green eggs. It has long been suggested that they predate the arrival of European chickens brought by the Spanish and are evidence of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contacts between Asian or Pacific Oceanic peoples, particularly the Polynesians and South America. In 2007, an international team of researchers reported the results of analysis of chicken bones found on the Arauco Peninsula in south central Chile. Radiocarbon dating indicated that the chickens were Pre-Columbian, and DNA analysis showed that they were related to prehistoric populations of chickens in Polynesia. These results appear to confirm that the chickens came from Polynesia and that there were transpacific contacts between Polynesia and South America before Columbus's arrival in the Americas