![]() ![]() Our knowledge of world exploration as it's been commonly accepted for centuries must now be reconceived due to this landmark work of historical investigation. ![]() Unveiling incontrovertible evidence of these astonishing voyages, "1421" rewrites our understanding of history. Also concealed was how the Chinese colonized America before the Europeans & transplanted in America & other countries the principal economic crops that have fed & clothed the world. Lost in China's long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America 70 years before Columbus & had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. researcher and former submarine commander Gavin Menzies asserts that beginning in 1421, the Chinese Admiral Zheng He commanded 300 vessels in seven. From that date onward, Europeans embraced Chinese intellectual ideas, discoveries, and inventions, all of which form the basis of western civilization today. Most records of their journeys were destroyed. Gavin Menzies makes the argument that in the year 1434, Chinathen the world's most technologically advanced civilizationprovided the spark that set the European Renaissance ablaze. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings. When it returned in 10/1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political & economic chaos. Its mission was "to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" & unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. See images for the condition of this book.īlurb: On, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Condition: Good: Good condition for a used book! Some wear. ![]()
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