If his voyages weren't defunded, could China have discovered the Americas before Spain did?
If his voyages weren't defunded, could China have discovered the Americas before Spain did?
Caleb Hall
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Jose Gray
No there was no real incentive to go that way. Also the Pacific would.have been much harder to cross than the Atlantic.
David Anderson
Am I just supposed to know who this grainy photo of a statue respresents
Bentley Jenkins
Zheng He
Jose Hall
The Polynesians didn't have much problem doing it.
Brandon Nelson
No, they would have died from scurvy senpai
Jason White
Pretty sure they did in 1421. Just reading about in a book I got.
Justin Flores
The Polynesians were expert sailors who paddled to Madagascar in fucking canoes. The Chinese lacked the knowhow to cross large sections of open ocean. If you look at any of Zheng He's voyages the fleet is never more than a week away from the coast.
Lucas Brown
>They could have colonized it if they didn't defund him
Charles Rodriguez
No.
He would have sailed up to Suez and contacted Europeans, though.
Chinese Socotra in 1420 is not impossible.
John Turner
That was a process that took hundreds of years
Nicholas Perry
Daily reminder that the Chinese were dumbasses who built all of their ships with flat bottoms because they rarely sailed outside of their own rivers.
>I have no idea if this is a meme or actual history
Landon Barnes
it wouldnt have made a difference if china discovered the americas, they were going isolationist as fuck.
Caleb Harris
It's a maymay.
The Chinese used ocean going junks for trade with Japan.
Their isolationism is due to the natural borders of China itself. No culture stays isolationist if there is an easy venue of expansion. That said, America is too far away for the Chinese to think of colonizing. The pacific be huge yo.
Christian Phillips
Not really, since his voyages were aimed at the Indian Ocean, not the Pacific.
Noah Cook
It still awesome how freaking good at navigating the sea the Polynesian people were.
Ayden Kelly
What book?
Noah White
Bought at a charity sale in the history section.
Seems pretty airtight.
Nathaniel Baker
They had outrigger canoes that could withstand the harsh conditions of the Pacific, also they still didn't reach the Americas unless you count Hawaii.
Austin Foster
Menzies is a hack and his works are all wishful pseudohistory.