The dinghies of Columbus that he crammed his crew into to somehow make it over the Atlantic would have been dwarfed by the 14th century ships of the Chinese admiral Zheng He. Gunpowder, as we know, was invented by the Chinese, who had already reached Africa (among many other places) a millennium earlier. How come, then, that it was Western Europe that colonized the world?
The Yellow Sea
The Yellow Sea
The Yellow Sea
The dinghies of Columbus that he crammed his crew into to somehow make it over the Atlantic would have been dwarfed by the 14th century ships of the Chinese admiral Zheng He. Gunpowder, as we know, was invented by the Chinese, who had already reached Africa (among many other places) a millennium earlier. How come, then, that it was Western Europe that colonized the world?