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So a Chinese Muslim eunuch discovered the America's??

Eh, thats definitly a fake. Zhengs fleet was way too big and unwieldy to come even close to reaching america. If any people get any credit for finding america first, its the scandinavians. But they never fully understood what they found and gave up soon after they were driven out by the natives.

Columbus on the other hand swore to the day of his death that he had found asia. But it took amerigo vespucci to really seal the deal of the whole new continent.
 
So...30,000 Chinese set sale for America, yet none stayed? Very doubtful. There'd be some evidence of it, relics or wreckage of one of the 300 ships they had, or they would've mingled with Natives.
 
Originally posted by: BD2003
Eh, thats definitly a fake. Zhengs fleet was way too big and unwieldy to come even close to reaching america. If any people get any credit for finding america first, its the scandinavians. But they never fully understood what they found and gave up soon after they were driven out by the natives.

Columbus on the other hand swore to the day of his death that he had found asia. But it took amerigo vespucci to really seal the deal of the whole new continent.
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i kinda think the whole Chinese Muslim eunuch thing would make a better movie 😀
 
Originally posted by: leftyman
Originally posted by: BD2003
Eh, thats definitly a fake. Zhengs fleet was way too big and unwieldy to come even close to reaching america. If any people get any credit for finding america first, its the scandinavians. But they never fully understood what they found and gave up soon after they were driven out by the natives.

Columbus on the other hand swore to the day of his death that he had found asia. But it took amerigo vespucci to really seal the deal of the whole new continent.
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i kinda think the whole Chinese Muslim eunuch thing would make a better movie 😀
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Nah. No T&A with a movie about a chinese muslim eunuch.
 
Personally, on average,I don't think that many Europeans were that "bright" in those days. Plus a lot of Europeans could use a bath in those days instead of using perfume and cologne to cover the "smell".

Time to duck and run...
 
Originally posted by: Kaieye
Personally, on average,I don't think that many Europeans were that "bright" in those days. Plus a lot of Europeans could use a bath in those days instead of using perfume and cologne to cover the "smell".

Time to duck and run...
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yep. marco polo discovered the bath when he visited china:thumbsup:

also, my teacher in AP world history talked about how the chinese potentially did discover america before columbus
 
Supposedly, there are round stones off the coast of California which are similar to stones the Chinese used for anchors. If you take into account the Bering Strait's short distance, it is much more likely that the Chinese made it across before the Europeans. It's less than a days sail between Asia and North America at that point. That doesn't mean they did, but there is certainly soe evidence that they may have.
 
TBH, it really doesn't matter who actually discovered America. It was Christopher Columbus' trip that actually changed everything, so that's the only time that it really mattered.
 
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
TBH, it really doesn't matter who actually discovered America. It was Christopher Columbus' trip that actually changed everything, so that's the only time that it really mattered.
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definitely true, but it never hurts to be more accurate
 
Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
Originally posted by: Kaieye
Personally, on average,I don't think that many Europeans were that "bright" in those days. Plus a lot of Europeans could use a bath in those days instead of using perfume and cologne to cover the "smell".

Time to duck and run...
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yep. marco polo discovered the bath when he visited china:thumbsup:

also, my teacher in AP world history talked about how the chinese potentially did discover america before columbus
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Good grief I guess you also believe that everyone back then thought the world was flat too. :roll: The poor hygiene myth is nothing more than that: A myth.
 
Maybe the Chinese are not that big into brain washing natives w/ religion, taking all their gold, and giving them AIDS in return?
 
Originally posted by: sandorski
Supposedly, there are round stones off the coast of California which are similar to stones the Chinese used for anchors. If you take into account the Bering Strait's short distance, it is much more likely that the Chinese made it across before the Europeans. It's less than a days sail between Asia and North America at that point. That doesn't mean they did, but there is certainly soe evidence that they may have.
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I'll bet there are round stones in Nebraska too. Did they also anchor there?
 
Originally posted by: daniel49
Originally posted by: sandorski
Supposedly, there are round stones off the coast of California which are similar to stones the Chinese used for anchors. If you take into account the Bering Strait's short distance, it is much more likely that the Chinese made it across before the Europeans. It's less than a days sail between Asia and North America at that point. That doesn't mean they did, but there is certainly soe evidence that they may have.
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I'll bet there are round stones in Nebraska too. Did they also anchor there?
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The stones I heard about were not just round, but fashioned round the same way the Chinese made their anchors.
 
Didn't Vikings make it here way before that AND there were remnants of there civilization? if 30,000 people occupied a place on this side of the ocean, i think we would have found it.
 
Originally posted by: SportSC4
Didn't Vikings make it here way before that AND there were remnants of there civilization? if 30,000 people occupied a place on this side of the ocean, i think we would have found it.
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Yeah, I always thought that the Vikings arrived in (what is now) Canada some time around 1000AD.
 
I just can't imagine sailing such a great distance in those early days of exploration. It must take a lot of balls to do that!
 
Well, Asians did discover it first, just not sure if it was the Chinese or not. Possibly mongolians, but in any case the proof is in Native Americans. And they did it by foot!
 
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