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... The ships sailed “between March 1421 and October 1423. ...
Gavin Menzies, a former British Royal Navy officer, argues in the bestseller 1421: The Year China Discovered America that squadrons from Zheng Hes fleets, did indeed get to the Americas first--as well as to Greenland, Antarctica, Australia and New Zealand. ...
He originally intended to write a book about the significance of the year 1421 around the world. ...
Using his knowledge of winds and tides, Menzies has located what he believes are nine Chinese leviathans wrecked in the Caribbean in December 1421. ...
Menzies used a computer program by the name of starry night, to re configure ate the way the stars would have looked like in 1421. ... Menzies used the software program to recreate the sky as it would have looked in 1421. ... And sometimes Menzies just plain contradicts himself, as when he asserts that "sea levels in 1421 were lower than today" (Menzies) because of modern global warming, but then later claims "Greenland was circumnavigable in 1421-2, for. ... There is so much evidence for and against the idea that China “discovered” the Americas in 1421. ... What is there truly to gain out of this, if they really did come here in 1421 well will not do anything different.
Approximate Word count = 1596
Approximate Pages = 6.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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