Rowan Gavin Paton Menzies (14 August 1937 – 12 April 2020)[1][2][3] was a British submarine lieutenant-commander who authored books claiming that the Chinese sailed to America before Columbus. Historians have rejected Menzies’ theories and assertions[4][5][6][7][8]: 367–372 and have categorised his work as pseudohistory.[9][10][11]
The Haida and other native groups of coastal BC have no record of Zheng He’s voyage.
And because his ships weren’t capable of handling the open ocean, the only way he’d be able to do such a trip is by hugging the coast, so they’d have absolutely seen them.
I’d never heard about this “Zheng He in America” thing before, so I just did a little reading about it. One thing I read said he supposedly sailed around Africa and to the east coast of America, which is even more implausible.
And the reason why Columbus managed to get funding for his journey was because he used incorrect estimations of the earth’s circumference, which indicated a much shorter distance to India than previous (much more accurate) estimations.
Oddly enough it seems the same is true for Mansa’s trip. Except that as regent, he gave himself the funding, twice.
However, as wikipedia notes: ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_voyage_of_the_predecessor_of_Mansa_Musa )
- No african artifacts have ever been discovered in South or Central America.
- Only one of the ships returned, and it only reported the existence of the “Canary Current” which that ship did not enter.
In addition. The dark skin of some South Americans is genetically distant to modern Africans, but has ties to the same markers in some asian cultures, implying its addition was prehistoric and happened in the old world.
I just learned a ton honestly
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