Did The Chinese Discover America?


The unit is about  Gavin Menzies, a British historian,that claims Chiense Admiral Zheng He set up colonies and sailed round South America before Columbus, Menzies' new book, 'Who Discovered America?' also claims the Chinese have been sailing to the New World since 40,000 BC across the Pacific Ocean

In his bestselling book, "1421: The Year China Discovered America,"British amateur historian Gavin Menzies turns the story of the Europeans' discovery of America on its ear with a startling idea: Chinese sailors beat Christopher Columbus to the Americas by more than 70 years. The book has generated controversy within the halls of scholarship. Anthropologists, archaeologists, historians and linguists alike have debunked much of the evidence that Menzies used to support his notion, which has come to be called the 1421 theory.