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Gavin Menzies
On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. 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.
When it returned in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in ...
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Gavin Menzies
Royal Navy sea captain saw in authenticated ancient maps evidence of pre-columbian voyages to the Americas. He pinponted a 1421 Chinese worldwide expedition of hundreds of ships, through historical documents, wrecks, remains of settlements, plants and animals left behind, along with maps copied by later European explorers of note.
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