1421 the year discovered the world...

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Today I went downtown with friends, and we went to a book store, and a book that I saw was on Crossfire on CNN came into my vision, it is called 1421, the year China discovered the world. I haven't started reading it yet, but I will start with this example of a very serious oversight that must be addressed:

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The Jean Rotz map
The Jean Rotz map was drawn by esteemed cartographer Jean Rotz, the official 'hydrographer' to King Henry VIII. The map was incorporated into the Boke of Idrography, presented to the king in 1542. It depicts the coastlines of Africa, Asia, India and China with great accuracy, yet more surprisingly it also shows the east, west and northernmost parts of Australia, some two centuries before Cook made his 'discovery'.
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How would that be possible? The theory is that the Chinese were probably the ones who went there before the Europeans. And no one can deny the expansive Ming dynasty expeditions to the Indian sub-continent and even East Africa. The book promises to be interesting...: D
 
My title is fricked up, I realize this...

1421 the year China discovered the world...

I can be so stupid sometimes.
 
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