1421: The Year China Discovered the World | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-16

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00:01:03 1 Biography
00:03:40 2 i1421: The Year China Discovered the World/i
00:03:52 2.1 Writing and research
00:06:08 2.2 Publication, claims, and commercial success
00:08:49 2.3 Criticism
00:12:58 3 i1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance/i



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Rowan Gavin Paton Menzies (born 14 August 1937) is a British author and retired submarine lieutenant-commander who has written books promoting claims that the Chinese sailed to America before Columbus.  Historians have rejected Menzies' theories and assertions and have categorised his work as pseudohistory.He is best known for his controversial book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, in which he asserts that the fleets of Chinese Admiral Zheng He visited the Americas prior to European explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492, and that the same fleet circumnavigated the globe a century before the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan. Menzies' second book, 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance extended his discovery hypothesis to the European continent. In his third book, The Lost Empire of Atlantis, Menzies claims that Atlantis did exist, in the form of the Minoan Civilization, and that it maintained a global seaborne empire extending to the shores of America and India, millennia before actual contact in the Age of Discovery.