1421 the year china discovered America

So i just finished reading 1421 the year china discovered America, and in this book the author goes on and on about how china supposedly china landed in America in 1421 AD , years before Columbus. Now that's all fine and good, however, THE VIKINGS LANDED IN AMERICA DURING THE 10TH CENTURY AD!!!!!!!

How does someone who spent so much time working on a theory completely overlook such commonplace knowledge???

I guess neither the Chinese or the Vikings had the desire or ability to really make anything of their discovery.

People were flying all around the world with aliens long before that though. So I'm unimpressed with all of that.

Why would he mention the vikings in his book? The vikings had nothing to do with what he was describing. Or are you under the silly impression that "discovery" is a one time only thing that only one person can possibly be credited for?

And that book is crap. Historians around the world have pretty much universally dismissed his book as a complete fabrication.

Even then there's a fair amount of evidence to suggestthat the native population of North America cross a land bridge to get there in the first place. But yeah American was known of well before the 1400's, it just wasn't common knowledge or successfully settled by those from the "old continents" until then.Ace6301

I don't see that as up for debate, how else would they have gotten there?

Why would he mention the vikings in his book? The vikings had nothing to do with what he was describing. Or are you under the silly impression that "discovery" is a one time only thing that only one person can possibly be credited for?

And that book is crap. Historians around the world have pretty much universally dismissed his book as a complete fabrication.

Oleg_Huzwog

Well vikings are relevant because this guy claimed that the Chinese were the first old world group to land in the Americas(aside from the originals of course).

[QUOTE="Ace6301"]Even then there's a fair amount of evidence to suggestthat the native population of North America cross a land bridge to get there in the first place. But yeah American was known of well before the 1400's, it just wasn't common knowledge or successfully settled by those from the "old continents" until then.frannkzappa

I don't see that as up for debate, how else would they have gotten there?

Spaceships.

[QUOTE="frannkzappa"]

[QUOTE="Ace6301"]Even then there's a fair amount of evidence to suggestthat the native population of North America cross a land bridge to get there in the first place. But yeah American was known of well before the 1400's, it just wasn't common knowledge or successfully settled by those from the "old continents" until then.Storm_Marine

I don't see that as up for debate, how else would they have gotten there?

Spaceships.

That's what the new HISTORY Chanel keeps trying to tell me.

[QUOTE="Oleg_Huzwog"]

Why would he mention the vikings in his book? The vikings had nothing to do with what he was describing. Or are you under the silly impression that "discovery" is a one time only thing that only one person can possibly be credited for?

And that book is crap. Historians around the world have pretty much universally dismissed his book as a complete fabrication.

frannkzappa

Well vikings are relevant because this guy claimed that the Chinese were the first old world group to land in the Americas(aside from the originals of course).

Ah, well remember this is the same author who also claimed that Atlantis was real and that they too discovered America... so yeah, feel free to ignore just about everything that guy wrote.

[QUOTE="frannkzappa"]

[QUOTE="Ace6301"]Even then there's a fair amount of evidence to suggestthat the native population of North America cross a land bridge to get there in the first place. But yeah American was known of well before the 1400's, it just wasn't common knowledge or successfully settled by those from the "old continents" until then.Storm_Marine

I don't see that as up for debate, how else would they have gotten there?

Spaceships.

[QUOTE="frannkzappa"]

[QUOTE="Oleg_Huzwog"]

Why would he mention the vikings in his book? The vikings had nothing to do with what he was describing. Or are you under the silly impression that "discovery" is a one time only thing that only one person can possibly be credited for?

And that book is crap. Historians around the world have pretty much universally dismissed his book as a complete fabrication.

Oleg_Huzwog

Well vikings are relevant because this guy claimed that the Chinese were the first old world group to land in the Americas(aside from the originals of course).

Ah, well remember this is the same author who also claimed that Atlantis was real and that they too discovered America... so yeah, feel free to ignore just about everything that guy wrote.

Well i knew he was crazy, i just didn't know how dumb he was.

awwww i had hoped some of gamespots resident conspiracy theorists would weigh in on this thread....guess not.

China chartered a lot of ocean and visited a lot of places back then. I think it was in the 15th century that they were checking out the north of Australia, around Queensland (how unfortunate) and iirc it was the earliest charterings of Australia. Though some group was scoping out the west coast around the same time, maybe a little later.

They are a great civilization, the greatest? Perhaps, having 1 billion people under one rule for 2000 years is pretty big achievement. To bad they decided the only thing they wanted out of outer-continental expansion was a Northern African giraffe for show... they could have been even better!

Because pseudo-science.