Columbus: 70 years too late?
I say it sounds crazy, but when you visit this website, you’ll think twice as to whether the Chinese really did discover America 70 years before Columbus. Historian and author Gavin Menzies concluded that
Chinese seafarers and concubines settled in Malaysia, India, Africa, the Americas, Australasia, and across the Pacific, almost a century before the Europeans started their historic voyages of exploration…
A huge Chinese fleet of 800 vessels had sailed from China in March 1421 and they’d circumnavigated the world and they had created settlements in North and South America, in Australia, New Zealand, across the Pacific and in the Indian Ocean…
Make what you will of his astonishing claims. At the least, a challenge such as this to conventionally accepted historical record reminds us that not all that we accept as fact is actually truth.