lead Chinese fleets around the entire world in expeditions that lasted two years, until 1423, which included reaching different parts of the Americas and circumnavigating the globe.
It makes me think about the famous explorers revere like
- Christopher Columbus
- Bartolomeu Dias
- Pedro Alvares Cabral
- Vasco da Gama
- Ferdinand Magellan; and
- Captain James Cook
who followed in the wake of the Chinese expeditions. They were brave but maybe not as much as we think because they were not the first and they knew it too!
Read this book and we will realise that the way we see the world has been marketed to us!
Being Irish, I actually am in favour of Saint Brendan having been the first man to Captain a boat to the Americas but the truth is that we will never know who that was!
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