I just read a book called 1421. What do you think?

The book was about a Chinese treasure fleet that left China in 1421, sailed around the world, and came back a couple years later to a new chinese regime, which burned all records and introverted itself. Since there are no official records, the author relies on maps that Columbus had, showing Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hispaniola, and some buildings around the world, in the Azores, Rhode Island, and Canada, along with some cultural similarities on the west coast of the Americas as evidence of a Chinese encounter. Have you read this? What do you think about it?

well the chinese treasure flet was one of the biggest and most advanced of it’s time and it’s admiral Zhou We.
The weird part is that when the felt came back they found a completly different China. what vaused this radical change in chinese politics is debateable.
About the facts tha Menzies presents in his book, that china had made voyages and discoveries long before the europeans, it wold not be surprising, because the chinese kinda’ have a loooong history of discovering things and doing different stuff llong before europeans.

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