• kbin_space_program@kbin.run
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    5 months ago

    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.

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      5 months ago

      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.