Did the Chinese Discover America??

Well, undoubtedly, Christofer Columbus was the first navigator who discovered America, along with his comrades and a set of slaves, I mean, his crew. But however, there have been hints that Columbus was not the first explorer to come to the New World from the Old. This chapter says that an Emperor named ''Zheng He'' was the one who established a journey throughout the World. He had an armada of hundred of ships, including sixty gigantic. These ships could carry 1,000 passengers. 

On Zheng's first expedition, he went to Vietnam and the Spice Islands and established a base at Malacca. On one voyage, he traveled to India to Ceylon. Summarizing, Zheng traveled to 37 countries. The Chinese exhanged their goods with Indian, Arabic, and African, peals, amber, incense, etc....

A person points out that, when Columbus made his voyage, he had maps showing the position of the Americas. ''What nobody has explained is why the European explorers had maps'' stated Menzie. ''Who drew the maps?'' There are millions of square miles of ocean. It required huge fleets to chart them. Zheng He died in India on his senventh voyage, and another account says that he died shortly after returning to China.