' Then Menzies will absurdly postulate about what the Treasure Fleet MUST have been doing in uncharted territory, with no trace of written or oral record, halfway across the globe nearly 600 years ago. A typical 'fact' presented by Menzies is introduced with 'By this point I was sure.' or 'I realized that Zhou must have.' or even 'From my days as a navigator, I knew that. Menzies takes a tremendous dump on the sensibilities of his readers, bombarding us with outrageous claims backed up with erroneous facts and arrogant speculation. There are books that break new ground with bombshell research and there are books that spellbind us with the skill of their deception.

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. Unveiling incontrovertible evidence of these astonishing voyages, '1421' rewrites our understanding of history. Also concealed was how the Chinese colonized America before the Europeans & transplanted in America & other countries the principal economic crops that have fed & clothed the world. Lost in China's long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America 70 years before Columbus & had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. Most records of their journeys were destroyed.

The great ships were left to rot at their moorings. When it returned in 10/1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political & economic chaos. Its mission was 'to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas' & unite the whole world in Confucian harmony.

On, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China.

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