6/5/2023 0 Comments 1434 by gavin menzies![]() ![]() The work is junk history, the argument is not plausible, and Menzies leaves us laughing from page to page. Menzies imagines that Europeans didn't know a fig about oceanic navigation, although there's considerable evidence to the contrary. He imagines that the Chinese taught the Europeans that the world was round, in spite of copious evidence that this was already well understood. ![]() ![]() For example, he insists Columbus and other navigators already knew of the American continents in advance, ignoring Columbus' own delusional after action reports. But Menzies makes so many basic errors that the entire corpus becomes questionable. ![]() This book considers the highly questionable notion that a massive Chinese embassy fleet made its way - somehow- through the Red Sea/Nile canal in Egypt, descended on Venice and other Italian cities, and made possible the Renaissance. And like von Daniken with his aliens, Menzies doesn't think anyone but the Chinese came up with anything technological on their own. It is amusing that some of the very things von Daniken insisted were gifts of extraterrestrials Menzies claim came from early 15th Century Chinese. Menzies, like Erich von Daniken (Chariots of the Gods) before him, is fixed on a theory of history and evaluates "data" only on the basis of whether they fit his theory. ![]()
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