I am just going to throw in a few because clearly you are not a Historian. You base your knowledge on Pop history.
1421 belongs to the same publishing house that brought us The Da Vinci Code, and is another alternative history. Unlike The Da Vinci Code, though, 1421 is marketed as non-fiction. It’s aimed at a general, predominantly male readership.The author’s first attempt at selling his ideas was an unmitigated failure"
"Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, You will always find sensationalists and cretins who will you know try to fill in those gaps in the record with fantastic speculations. But the limits of Zheng He’s voyages are absolutely clear from the sources. He made a series of voyages between 1405 and 1433, in the course of which he surveyed those portions of the Indian Ocean which were already well known and had been well known for centuries to Chinese navigators."
Menzies integrity is flawed.
"Strangely, none of the professionals at Transworld who prepared the manuscript for publication was asked to test the theory behind the book."
"Sally GaminaraIt’s very hard to prove that something is or is not correct. I mean we do have to rely on our authors. W-we simply don’t have the time. I mean we work full flat out publishing books to bring them to press, marketing them, publicizing them, selling them. We can’t possibly go through all our books and check every single one of them out for factual accuracy. "
Expert Historians do not do this:
8. Some of the persons who are supposed to have authenticated the map -- Professor Robert Cribbs, Dr. Gunnar Thompson, Charlotte Harris Rees, Lam Yee Din, Robin Lind, Gerald Andrew Bottomley and Anatole Andro -- have not even seen the map. None of these persons is an expert in any relevant field.
"Gavin gives a summary of five instruments, which includes that splendid water clock of Su Song in 1092 CE. This, in Gavin’s description, becomes a “water transportation machine”, which he labels a “chronometer”, an unlikely designation for a complicated structure about four stories high. As a naval officer with a dozen or so years service, he especially should be aware that a chronometer usually designates a small portable clock of great accuracy. It is like comparing Big Ben to a pocket watch.
Gavin, having just described in great detail how a Prime Meridian was established at Beijing in about 1442, comes to a learned conclusion that 18th-century Chinese astronomers didn’t know what they were doing when they aligned a later observatory there. He pronounces they had forgotten what their ancients knew and had been incorrectly taught by Italian Jesuits. However, he seems to have overlooked that, according to his latest brainstorm, those Europeans had derived their knowledge from Zheng He’s fleets."
also - no canal between the Med and Red sea, if there was one, this would have been a major sea route and reported by multiple historical sources (especially the then supremely powerful Arabs, they kept meticulous records of trade operations.)
"Yet Gavin has revealed without any evidence whatsoever other unrecorded momentous events prior to “1421”, such as in 1408 when a Chinese fleet voyaged up the Red Sea and was able to plough through the sand filled ancient Suez-Nile Canal and sail through the Mediterranean to the Azores and back. Side trips he says were also made in 1410 up the Adriatic to Venice to disclose geography for Albertin di Virga’s distorted world map, as well as sailing up the Thames to deliver silken underpants to Henry V, who was crowned King of England in 1413."
"In dealing with finding longitude by transit of Jupiter’s moons, which are not visible to the naked eye, Gavin has to admit that Zheng He did not have telescopes, so he asserts in those days the moons could be seen without one!"
Then read:
http://www.1421exposed.com/html/won_t_sail.htmlAlso. I am from NZ:
http://www.1421exposed.com/html/no_scientific_method.htmlMaori are definitely descended from Asia (recent dna testing (2007) proves that the split occurred about 10,000 ago.. There is a hill tribe in North Vietnam that has been recently found. There is no direct genetic link to Han from so recent a time as Menzies claims. He is making stuff up.
"A leading New Zealand archaeologist is rubbishing claims by an English writer that Maori were descended from the union of Chinese concubines and Melanesian slaves."
New Zealand has researched this extensively and to be honest some Maori are a little offended to be descended from Asians.
Mr Menzies’ website now reports that there are scores of previously undiscovered wrecks of Chinese junks lying on the coast of New Zealand. He sources this remarkable discovery to a new acolyte and 1421 team member – Cedric Bell.
Q: You believe you found 45 wrecks of 15th Century Chinese junks on the coast of the South Island of New Zealand. Cedric Bell: Yes. Q: Ah these wrecks must be very well known then. Cedric Bell: No ah I don't think any of those wrecks are known. I think the majority of people have ah bi bypassed the few visible ones and not appreciated what they are.
Robin Watt The fact that there are supposed to be 35 Chinese junks washed up on the west coast of the south island, ah there was supposed to have been a small town of something like 28,000 eh on the south island, Chinese town. That type of of ah evidence is just too fantastic. In fact, I think it’s quite silly, it’s a load of bollocks.
Cedric Bell is a British retired marine engineer and surveyor who says there’s a Roman temple under Gavin Menzies’ back lawn.He’s been ridiculed for suggesting that the wrecks he claims to have discovered on three short trips to New Zealand, were washed up on the cliffs by a tsunami caused in turn, by a comet or meteorite.""
I can go on and on and on here.
Menzies sources are wrong/fabricated/leaps off faith. Its sensationalist history and not credible. Its like saying the bible is truthful. Many people think that too.
Must be a good read to have suckered you though.
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