Lost was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. The great ships rotted at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. When they returned Zhu Di lost control and China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. 1421: The Year China Discovered America TV Movie 2004 1h 53m IMDb RATING 6.4 /10 71 YOUR RATING Rate Documentary This documentary examines the controversial theory that a Chinese Ming Dynasty fleet, led by Zheng He, sailed past the Cape of Good Hope and crossed the Atlantic to discover the Americas, decades before Christopher Columbus. The journey would last over two years and circle the globe.
Their mission was ‘to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas’ and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony.
The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the finest teak, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di’s loyal eunuch admirals. “…On the 8th of March, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for 1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies (Paperback) at the best online prices. 1421: The Year China Discovered the World
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