![]() ![]() ![]() Lost was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. The great ships rotted at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. When they returned Zhu Di lost control and China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. ![]() The journey would last over two years and circle the globe. Their mission was ‘to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas’ and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the finest teak, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di’s loyal eunuch admirals. “…On the 8th of March, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. 1421: The Year China Discovered the World Bad History - 1421 by Gavin Menzies EmperorTigerstar 459K subscribers 9. ![]()
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