-- Did chinese discover America -- by HECTOR GOMEZ

Hi guys !!

Reading the article about THE CHINESE DISCOVERED AMERICA FIRST THAN EUROPEANS, is againt to everythign we have heard since chilhood up to now. Gavin Menzies, published a very interesting book to read for people who want to know the true of history. But, how did everything start? i´ve brought this litle article to basically explain the begining of the book.

 Baptist missionary Dr. Hendon M. Harris perused the curiosities in a shop inTaiwan. It was there he made an amazing discovery: a map that looked to be ancient, written in classical Chinese and depicting what to Harris was clearly North America. It was a map of Fu Sang, the legendary land of Chinese fable.

Fu Sang is to the Chinese what Atlantis is to the West -- a mythical land that most don't believe existed, but for which enough tantalizing (yet vague) evidence exists to maintain popularity for the idea. The map the missionary discovered -- which has come to be known as the Harris map -- showed that Fu Sang was located exactly where North America is. Even more amazingly, some of the features shown on the map of Fu Sang look a lot like geographical anomalies unique to North America, such as the Grand Canyon.

As if the Harris map weren't suggestive enough, other maps have also surfaced. It's a specific map that Menzies points to as definitive proof that the Chinese had already explored the world long before the Europeans ever set sail in the age of exploration. This map, known as the 1418 map -- so called for the date it was supposedly published -- clearly shows all of the world's oceans, as well as all seven continents, correct in shape and situation. Even more startling is the map's accurate depiction of features of North America, including the Potomac River in the Northeast of the present-day United States.

Menzies believes that not only had the Chinese already explored the world before Columbus and other European explorers, but that it was with Chinese maps that the Europeans were able to circumnavigate the globe. Armed with the map as his flagship evidence, Menzies points out plenty of other artifacts that point to Chinese pre-Columbian occupation in the Americas.

Menzies points out in this book, History would have been different if china had not stopped its exploration. Can you imagine our culture totally influenced by chinese traditions. At least I would have died hair....