On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Its mission was "to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute and spread Confucianism". But when the fleet returned in 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships were abandoned and the records of their journeys destroyed.
Lost in China's long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that the Chinese had reached America 70 years before Columbus and had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. Also concealed was how the Chinese colonized America and introduced principal economic crops.
Unveiling incontrovertible evidence of these astonishing voyages, 1421 rewrites our understanding of history in a landmark work of historical investigation.
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