Bad History - 1434 by Gavin Menzies
March 25, 2022
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After Gavin Menzies' first book claimed China discovered America before Columbus, his second book claimed China was responsible for the Renaissance. And this time the argument's even weaker.
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Thanks to Stefan Milo for the intro narration
The full book, if you really want to read it for yourself:
Additional sources used:
- Cooper, John P. “Egypt's Nile-Red Sea Canals: Chronology, Location, Seasonality and Function.” University of Exeter. Archaeopress, 1970.
- Davidson, Miles H. Columbus Then and Now: A Life Reexamined. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.
- Ma, Huan, Feng Ch'eng-chün, and John V. Mills. Ying-Yai Sheng-Lan: The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores (1433). Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1970.
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