Aushang: Verfasst von wtanaka (648) am Fr, 2006-01-13 03:09. | Betreff: Did China discover America?

An Ecoonomist article discusses a map of the world that may have been created from the voyages of Zheng He, years before Columbus arrived in the Americas.

China beat Columbus to it, perhaps: An ancient map that strongly suggests Chinese seamen were first round the world

Columbus found the New World in 1492; Dias discovered the Cape of Good Hope in 1488; and Magellan set off to circumnavigate the world in 1519. However, there is one difficulty with this confident assertion of European mastery: it may not be true.

It seems more likely that the world and all its continents were discovered by a Chinese admiral named Zheng He, whose fleets roamed the oceans between 1405 and 1435.