On 3 8 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Its mission was and “to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas and ” and u0026 unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. When it returned in 10 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and u0026 economic chaos. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings. Most records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost in China’s long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America 70 years before Columbus and u0026 had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. Also concealed was how the Chinese colonized America before the Europeans and u0026 transplanted in America and u0026 other countries the principal economic crops that have fed and u0026 clothed the world.Unveiling incontrovertible evidence of these astonishing voyages, and “1421 and ” rewrites our understanding of history. Our knowledge of world exploration as it’s been commonly accepted for centuries must now be reconceived due to this landmark work of historical investigation.

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