WHO Discovered America?

Im going to talk about who  discovered    America.  who  discovered America ? this is a good question, because there are  many  theories  about  who did, but the more controversary  theory  is the  theory of the bristh historian Gavin Menzies.

I was surfing in internet  and and researching  about who were the first who discovered America and I found  the theory of Gavin Menzies. the theory of  Menzies turn the story  of  Europeans discovery of America; on its ears with  startling  idea: chinese sailor beat christopher  columbus by more than 70 years say menzies in his book 1421.

The  theory of menzies has generated controversy within the halls scholarship.

the following information has been taken  from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

Gavin Menzies, a British historian, claims Chiense Admiral Zheng He set up colonies and sailed round South America before Columbus

Menzies' new book, 'Who Discovered America?' also claims the Chinese have been sailing to the New World since 40,000 BC across the Pacific Ocean

His theories are not widely accepted by academia and he has been labeled a 'pseudo-historian'

A copy of a 600-year-old map found in a second-hand book shop is the key to proving that the Chinese, not Christopher Columbus, were the first to discover the New World, a controversial British historian claims. 

The document is purportedly an 18th century copy of a 1418 map charted by Chinese Admiral Zheng He, which appears to show the New World in some detail.

This purported evidence that a Chinese sailor mapped the Western Hemisphere more than seven decades before Columbus is just one of Earth-shattering claims that author Gavin Menzies makes in his new book ‘Who Discovered America?’ - out today, just in time for the Columbus Day holiday.

‘The traditional story of Columbus discovering the New World is absolute fantasy, it’s fairy tales,’ Mr Menzies told MailOnline.

Mr Menzies believes that this portion of the map depicts the Chinese mapping of North and South America in 1418 - showing major rivers.

For me the theory of menzies may not turn out be correct but if somebody who is bold enough , to present an alternative hipotesis to the main strean perspective ,tha columbus was the firs, is a ridiculed
beside that if the chinese had been the first  the story has been different. different culture , different thoughts and well all the things different.