Our knowledge of world exploration as it has 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 and transplanted in America and other countries the principal economic crops that have fed and clothed the world. Lost in China's long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Gavin Menzies (1937-2020) was the bestselling author of 1421: The Year China Discovered America 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance and The Lost Empire of Atlantis: History's Greatest Mystery Revealed. When it returned in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and 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" and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Gavin Menzies, a former British Royal Navy officer, argues in the bestseller 1421: The Year China Discovered America, that squadrons from Zheng He's fleets, between 14, did indeed.
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