China: First to Discover the New World?
When you purchase through links on our land site , we may earn an affiliate delegation . Here ’s how it works . The first mankind to settle in the Americas crossed the Bering land bridge from Asia , most archeologist agree , and Norse sailors and Christopher Columbus were among the first Europeans to set foundation in the New World . Or so move conventional wisdom . But amateur historiographer and generator Gavin Menzies has made a lucrative calling upend schematic wiseness , starting with his controversial book " 1421 : The YearChinaDiscovered the World " ( William Morrow , 2002 ) , in which he claims that a Chinese fleet helmed by Admiral Zheng He sailed to the Americas in 1421 and depart behind plentiful archaeological and genetic grounds of their journey ....