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Thread: Do you believe that Chinese circumnavigated the world in 1421?
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[quote=CHRISWAUGHBJ,39347]Excellent pics of the vessels. If only the Ming Dynasty hadn't fallen prey to those officials who opposed exploration. It would've given Europe quite a shock to see ships like that arriving off the coast! Yeah, I've heard the people who discovered the Hobbits were convinced they'd found a new species, but there are still competing explanations. Early days, definitely, and scepticism and healthy debate are part of the scientific process. Now if Gavin Menzies can come up with some proper evidence, we'll find ourselves in a very interesting debate indeed. For the record, whenever the subject comes up (and it's amazing how Eurocentric my students' knowledge of history is! I always have to remind them of Zheng He!) I tell my students "It is possible Zheng He sailed to NZ and a variety of other places, but there's no firm evidence yet, so we can only say that he explored South East and South Asia and the east coasts of Africa and Arabia, and may have visited other places, too."[/quote]
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