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最近在美国畅销的一本新书《1421年:中国发现美洲大陆》引起了各界的广泛关注。该书作者加文·孟席斯经过对大量航海图、古代器物及其他考古资料长达14年的悉心考证,得出了一个举世震惊的结论:发现美洲大陆的人不是哥伦布,最早实现环球航行的人也不是麦哲伦,早在1421至1423年间,中国明朝三宝太监郑和率领的船队就完成了上述的壮举。这一发现不仅让发现新大陆的时间提早了约70年,而且还将世界环球航行的历史又往前推进了100多年。对于早已把“哥伦布1492年10月12日首先发现美洲大陆”奉为天经地义的史学界来
A recent book bestseller in the United States, “1421: Discovering the Americas in China,” has aroused widespread public concern. Gavin Menzies, the author of the book, has been shocking to find that a large number of charts, ancient artifacts and other archaeological materials have been carefully studied for 14 years. The author found that the people in the American continent were not Columbus and were the earliest to sail around the world Are not Magellan. As early as 1421 to 1423, the fleet led by Zheng He, an emperor’s eunuch of the Ming Dynasty in China, completed the above feat. This discovery not only made the discovery of the New World a little over 70 years earlier, but also propelled the world history of global navigation forward for more than 100 years. For history historians who have already first described “America’s first discovery of the continental United States” on October 12, 1492, Columbus