How much longer can we ignore the fact Chinese discovered

>>492884

Zheng He's voyages were all around India and the Persian Gulf you twit.

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Which brings me to the question, were the Olmecs fully Chinese? I really doubt it, but you can't deny the Asian features of them.

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I'm sort of inclined to believe they mixed with "Aboriginal looking people" for a lack of a better term.

WE

HOL UP

>>493016
WUZ

QINGZ

'N

SHANG

>>492884
Top bad they didn't do shit

>>493027
*eats sweet and sour pork*
SO YOU SAYIN

>>492884
>Discover giant, "uninhabited", resource rich landmass
>Ignore it

???

AY-YA!

HORR UP

U TRYNA TERR ME

>mfw the Americans were the ones who discovered the Indies and China

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>>492884
Irish monks discovered it first for Europeans.

Excellent contributions guys, I've learned so much.

And why do OP's keep making threads then abandoning them? Nobody is here to spoon feed you

Vikings.

Except they got BTFO by Native Americans and never dared to come back.

>>493722
more likely there was nothing to pillage and Europe wasn't crumpled enough to justify founding settlements months of travel away from everything

>>493744
Nice memes.

Why'd the Vikings settle on Iceland then? They settled on American soil but got raped by Indians hard.

>>493255
underrated

>>493027
HOR UP

>>492884

thought the Vikings were the first to discover and colonize it

>>493255
t. Puyi

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There was 0 financial incentive for the Chinese to go across the Pacific. Yeah he had a fleet that could make the voyage, but why would he? He just wanted to spread Chinese influence to other nearby nations via massive display of power and Chinese dick waving.

Plus, the Ming were officially isolationist and self sufficient economically, with workshops flourishing and a growing merchant class (Read Golden Lotus).

Europe wanted the commerce and discovered America in the process of trying to get to Asia.

>>494114
>Golden lotus
Link it please anon.

>>493666
satan's trips say its true

>>494137
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin_Ping_Mei

>>493666
this desu senpai, baka.

>>492884
It's unimportant who discovered America first since only Columbus's discovery actually matters

>>492918
>>492924
>>492934
Indians/native americans are closer to Asians than to Europeans I thought it's something that was settled up long time ago already.

>>493765
They also settled on Greenland which had a heavy Indian presence and didn`t get BTFO there.

>>494219
All of my this.

>Leiv Eiriksson c. 970 – c. 1020
>Zheng He 1371–1433 or 1435

Wew?

>>492884
The pacific is fucking HUGE man, it literally takes up half the planet. That would be a horror to supply a trip for in those times.

>>493765
>raped by Indians
Proofs?

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>>493255
Lel

Cough... norses... cough... seamen

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>>494972
Did you mention VIKINGS on HIS?? The Norse couldn't have done ANYTHING OF VALUE!!