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Thread: Do you believe that Chinese circumnavigated the world in 1421?
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[quote=GUEST86107,367583]I have always been fascinated by the possibility the Chinese were one of the first to reach the new world (N. & S. America) before Columbus. As someone of Chinese ancestry I have examined the subject since the 1980s. I don't think many Chinese scholar would come to the conclusion we were the first to travel around the world. But many would agree that sometime in history they did reach the west coast of N. & S. America by the currents running off Japan east to Alaska and down the American coast. If the Chinese did circumnavigate the world, I think they could have easily done it in the Tong or the Sung Dynasties which is a few hundred years before the Ming. As far as I know by the porcelain found they only went as far as the east coast of Africa (present day Kenya). They had the technology to do go around the world but there is insufficient evidence according to historical archives and artifacts found. There were accounts that Buddhist monks reached N. America by the currents off Japan a few hundred years before the Ming. What about the map that was supposedly a copy of a Ming map during the Ching? The map could have been a copy of an even earlier Chinese map from the Tong or the Sung (yet to be proven).[/quote]
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