1421: The Yr China Found America

On March 8, 1421, the most important fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to “proceed all the way in which to the ends of the earth to gather tribute from the barbarians past the seas.” When the fleet returned residence in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and financial chaos. The good ships have been left to rot at their moorings and the information of their journeys have been destroyed. Misplaced within the lengthy, self-imposed isolation that adopted was the data that Chinese language ships had reached America seventy years earlier than Columbus and had circumnavigated the globe a century earlier than Magellan. And so they colonized America earlier than the Europeans, transplanting the principal financial crops which have since fed and clothed the world.