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>There were no Chinese or Indian traders looking for sea routes to Europe. That's possibly not true. The author of this book makes a compelling case the Chine
by david927 10y ago
>There were no Chinese or Indian traders looking for sea routes to Europe.
That's possibly not true. The author of this book makes a compelling case the Chinese had actually been exploring earlier:
https://www.amazon.com/1421-Year-China-Discovered-America/dp/0061564893 https://www.amazon.com/1421-Year-China-Discovered-America/dp...
- jogjayr 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Menzies#1421:_The_Year_China_Discovered_the_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Menzies#1421:_The_Year_C... I'd never heard of this book (or theory before) but its Wikipedia page has lots of criticisms and claims that the book is basically nonsense (having said that, many of the references are to a site called 1421exposed.com so...¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ). The Wikipedia article about Zheng He's voyages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_voyages#Seventh_voyage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_voyages#Seventh_voyag...) has substantially better references and makes no claims (even speculations) that he ever traveled to the New World. Let's just admit that if such a voyage did in fact take place, it did not make anywhere near the impact as in Europe.