Columbus debunker sets sights on Leonardo da Vinci

This propaganda will work it's way into the Chinese text books. Chinese children will be taught that there is nothing in the West to emulate, that all so-called Western achievemnents were stolen from the Chinese.

Let's see...what we have here is a political ideology that evokes a mythical golden age and exalts a rabid nationalism.

If only we had a word for this.

I got about two hundred pages into this book...

I'm pretty certain Menzies is a crackpot.

“The two words in Chinese, jung guo, actually mean Middle Kingdom”

Personally, I think the phrase is better translated, “The Kingdom at the Center of the Universe.” That captures the spirit and intent much better, I think.

Certainly in the “modern” view, there were countries on the map, and China never traded with Egypt, they were too primitive “back then” to actually talk and trade and exchange ideas...which is bunk of course.

Even the Romans had trade relations with India for example, as did the Caliphates with the Far East...

As I recall, the large trading centers in Western China ended up succumbing to desert encroachment.

Chinese scientists also invented electricity and light bulbs, but the dastardly lamp oil industrial complex stole the patents and buried them to keep their monopoly.

Reminds me of this piece:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040804135444/http://www.mepc.org/public_asp/workshops/musexpl.asp

Before Columbus, there were—or so we are told— natives in the Americas who amazingly spoke Arabic.

First publish propaganda in pseudo-scholarly forums. Then quote the material in textbooks.

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/04/liberal-high-school-text-book-claims.html

a chinese fleet going to ITaly would certainly have to take thte long way around. there was no direct sea route to china back then - they’d have to go around the horn, at the very least. than find the relatively narrow gap at gibraltar and enter the mediterranean and finally come up against italy - whilst missing every other landfall.

sure.

a chinese fleet going to ITaly would certainly have to take thte long way around. there was no direct sea route to china back then - they’d have to go around the horn, at the very least. than find the relatively narrow gap at gibraltar and enter the mediterranean and finally come up against italy - whilst missing every other landfall.

They'd have had to make stops along the way to find provisions. As you indicate, why Italy and why Venice? Spain and/or north Africa should have warranted visits.

funny how nobody else saw them.

Anti-Chinese-suckup-revisionism Sarcasm Torpedo...

"Anti-Chinese-suckup-revisionism Sarcasm Torpedo"? You are quite imaginative.

I’ll bet he has a Chinese Honey he wants to impress.

You nailed it.

I've read that 90% of the so-called "genocide" in the Western Hemisphere was actually disease.

The reduction of the natives also included a large amount of interbreeding. Apparently there is little of the original Y chromosome in North America natives, and the Rio Grande south are largely Mestizo populations, with pockets of Europeans and Indians.

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This topic was posted 7/28/2008, thanks decimon.

More Chinese junk, just not the ship kind. No one asked, but I'm really glad Menzies is dead.

And don't even start with the "Marco Polo never went to China" horse****, 'kay?

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