Did the Chinese discover America? Posted by Scott Manning on January 14, 2003 | Comments (0)

In his new book, "1421: The Year China Discovered America" (William Morrow), Gavin Menzies claims that a massive Chinese fleet of huge junks and support ships made a two-year circumnavigation of the globe, with extensive exploration of the Americas, nearly a century before Magellan and Columbus. Needless to say, his assertion has raised an international flurry of debate.

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