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Here's a Happy Meal for Ivy League educators, and other Western Civ haters. The claim is " that Chinese seafarers and concubines settled in
Malaysia, India, Africa, the Americas, Australasia, and across the
Pacific, almost a century before the Europeans started their historic
voyages of exploration."
Whoop-di-doo.That's more adventuresome than the Cold War era Soviet claim that communists invented baseball, or Leonard Jeffries' assertion
that every advance in history was made by blacks, but whites
stole the patents, or anything that Al Gore says. Here's why.
What matters is impact, as in who cared? The Columbus voyage changed the
world, any others are drops of gull poop in the sand. No Chinese
invention, gunpowder, or chopsticks, meant anything until the West
adavnced it. Learn it, love it, and get over it.
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