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Ponce
30th December 2012, 09:04 AM
And who says that China was the first ones?.......someday everybody will be in for a big surprised...video
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On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the finest teak, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di’s loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was “to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas” and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would last more than two years and circle the globe.

When they returned in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships, now considered frivolous, were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost in China’s long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. Also concealed were how the Chinese colonized America before the Europeans and transplanted to America, Australia, New Zealand and South America the principal economic crops that have fed and clothed the world.

http://undergrounddocumentaries.com/1421-the-year-china-discovered-america-full-version-playlist/

Horn
30th December 2012, 09:46 AM
Good show, but the Portuguese connection was just dropped like a fouled plume pen. They were far more influential to early exploration and mapping then the movie lends to believe.

To flatter an emperor who bankrupt a nation, and enable current Chinese capitalism seems the goal of it.