Did China actually discover America before Columbus?

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Yes, they also went to the moon before America.

I thought apparently natives are descended from Chinese

>>1837752

There's no evidence that they did and quite compelling reasons why they couldn't have (to do with prevailing winds and the fact that the Pacific is two or thee times as wide as the Atlantic).

They probably /could/ have done so, but idk if the chinese at the time knew the world was round or cared what might be on the other side of the Pacific. The tradition since ancient times was for foreign kings to make their way to the Emperor and kowtow before him, China calls itself the "middle of the world" and has never had the kind of "culture-crush" the West has had with the Greeks, Indians and indeed the Chinese.

>>1837776
Well than how did they get the aloe plant?

>>1837762
>When chinks are everywhere

>>1837764
>descended from Chinese
While Native Americans do have 'Asian' ancestry. Especially the Hawaiians (Polynesian). NA's aren't exclusively descended from the Chinese

What does it matter?
The only one caring about this are butthurt nationalists who think their nationality discovered everything and its mum.

>>1837780
>aloe

You realise this is native to the Old World?

>>1837780

Unless you mean the century plant, which is NOT an aloe, in which case I have no clue. Maybe some washed ashore. Maybe it was aliums.

>>1837764
No, they have many common ancestors (and with Europeans too)

>>1837776
>no one sailed close to the coasts to map the continents ever