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His book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, is a work of sheer fiction presented as revisionist history. Not a single document or artifact has been found to support his new claims on the supposed Ming naval expeditions beyond Africa...Menzies' numerous claims and the hundreds of pieces of "evidence" he has assembled have been thoroughly ...
The book 1421 presents historical evidence and maps that support Gavin Menzies thesis that Ming Chinese fleets had sailed the world. While the book 1434 presents evidence and historical documents to support to an alternate route of transfer of the technological and intellectual knowledge of the more advanced Empire of Ming in China to the ...
The book, subtitled A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself, is a history of human discovery. Discovery in many forms is described: exploration, science, medicine, mathematics, and more-theoretical ones, such as time, evolution, plate tectonics, and relativity.
The fact that the article is called the 1421 Hypothesis suggests to me that it is directly related to the book entitled 1421: The year that China discovered the World and therefore all this information should be on that page. Any "emerging historical theory" should be included on the relevant pages under Chinese history.--
Marvel’s “Captain America: Brave New World” has been unveiled for members of the press, and the first reactions toward the comic book tentpole are coming in lukewarm. Washington Post ...
In a letter of late 1497 or early 1498, the English merchant John Day wrote to Columbus about Cabot's discoveries, saying that land found by Cabot was "discovered in the past by the men from Bristol who found 'Brasil' as your lordship knows". [140] There may be records of expeditions from Bristol to find the "isle of Brazil" in 1480 and 1481. [141]
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1862 – Speke discovers the Nile flowing from the northern end of Lake Victoria. [5] 1862 – Ivan Lukin ascends the Yukon to Fort Yukon. [106] 1864 – Samuel Baker discovers "Luta Nzige" (Lake Albert); in the distance he sights the Mountains of the Moon (the Rwenzori). [5] 1865 – Edward Whymper is the first to ascend the Matterhorn. [5]