How the Discovery of a Map Revised the History of the World
Somewhere in the range of 1421 and 1423 the Chinese mounted the biggest armada the world had ever seen which arrived at the furthest corners of the earth. The armada found and graphed the New World seventy years before Christopher Columbus and circumnavigated the globe a century prior to Magellan. The disclosure of these accomplishments has tested our thoughts of journeys of revelation and implies that our insight into history must be updated. II. THE PIZZIGANO CHART In the mid 1990's Gavin Menzies, a previous British naval force skipper, found a bizarre diagram that was drafted in 1424 by a Venetian map maker named Zuane Pizzigano. The graph indicated a gathering of four islands in the Caribbean - Satanazes, Antilia, Saya and Ymana that didn't show up in other guide and checked spots where no European had visited before, for example, Patagonia, the Andes, Antarctica and the east bank of Africa. Menzies verified that these pioneers were Chinese in light of the fact tha...