On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas." When the fleet returned home in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost in the long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. And they colonized America before the Europeans, transplanting the principal economic crops that have since fed and clothed the world. 1421——明成祖永樂十九年：中國發(fā)現(xiàn)美洲大陸，早于哥倫布70年；中國人發(fā)現(xiàn)澳洲，先于庫克船長350年；中國人到達(dá)麥哲倫海峽，比麥哲倫的出生還早一個(gè)甲子；中國解決計(jì)算經(jīng)度的問題，遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)領(lǐng)先歐洲三個(gè)世紀(jì)。過去的歷史課本都可以扔了，過去學(xué)的也可以遺忘，因?yàn)檫@本書可能會(huì)改寫一切。爆炸性的內(nèi)容，顛覆既有認(rèn)知。 作者孟席斯花了14年時(shí)間研究鄭和率領(lǐng)的中國艦隊(duì)先于歐洲那些耳熟能詳?shù)膫ゴ蠛胶＜野l(fā)現(xiàn)新大陸的那段傳奇旅程。他廣泛搜集古地圖、以及東西方斷簡殘篇的證據(jù)，用來支持自己的論點(diǎn)，...On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas." When the fleet returned home in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost in the long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. And they colonized America before the Europeans, transplanting the principal economic crops that have since fed and clothed the world. 1421——明成祖永樂十九年：中國發(fā)現(xiàn)美洲大陸，早于哥倫布70年；中國人發(fā)現(xiàn)澳洲，先于庫克船長350年；中國人到達(dá)麥哲倫海峽，比麥哲倫的出生還早一個(gè)甲子；中國解決計(jì)算經(jīng)度的問題，遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)領(lǐng)先歐洲三個(gè)世紀(jì)。過去的歷史課本都可以扔了，過去學(xué)的也可以遺忘，因?yàn)檫@本書可能會(huì)改寫一切。爆炸性的內(nèi)容，顛覆既有認(rèn)知。 作者孟席斯花了14年時(shí)間研究鄭和率領(lǐng)的中國艦隊(duì)先于歐洲那些耳熟能詳?shù)膫ゴ蠛胶＜野l(fā)現(xiàn)新大陸的那段傳奇旅程。他廣泛搜集古地圖、以及東西方斷簡殘篇的證據(jù)，用來支持自己的論點(diǎn)，利用自己對(duì)航海和天文學(xué)知識(shí)的優(yōu)勢，成功地解釋了近年所發(fā)現(xiàn)的艦隊(duì)沿路留下的遺物與碑文，以及中途的沉船，還有水手在各地祭拜媽祖的遺址。(展開)
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