CAS AR 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Gavin Menzies, Orkney, Fusang
28 Feb 2016
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Artifact trails: evidence of visitors to the new world: everyone"s stuff is unique, distinguishing, & diagnostic, different cultures had different ways of doing things. Pacific islands, & australia: mentions voyages of admiral zheng he commanded fleet of ships in 7 epic voyages (1405-1433) went w from china along s asian coast to e coast of. Africa, then n into persian gulf: hypothesis: when zheng returned, part of the fleet commanded by four of. Zheng"s rear admirals didn"t return continued journey to the nw: evidence very thin. Africans in ancient america: africans journeyed to america first & made contact w/ native people, may have had impact on civilizations there. Ivan van sertima professor of anthropology (supports above hypothesis) evidence: Presence of a metal (gua-nin) said to have. Columbus did not claim to have seen black. Indians, he was passing on a story that he heard from indians he had seen.
