1421 - The Year China Discovered the World
by geekzhang on 2006-01-19 23:38:28
An overseas website is specially about Zheng He's 1421 discovery of America. However, "Columbus discovered the New World of America in 1492; Dias discovered the Cape of Good Hope in 1488; Magellan began the first circumnavigation in 1519". These important historical facts of human civilization that had been written in textbooks for many years have recently been challenged by a Chinese ancient world map on display in Beijing from this week.