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re-mapping history

I just finished Gavin Menzies‘ page-turner ‘1434,’ a book that proposes that a Chinese fleet visited Italy in that year and brought along with it world maps that paved the way for the European ‘Age of Exploration’ and technical documents that laid the groundwork for many Renaissance ‘inventions.’ The controversial book is largely an amateur […]

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