> > If Thompson is right, Admiral Zheng may have beaten
> > Columbus by at least 74 years, and 500 years of history
> > would have to be rewritten

"discovered" is parochial term of the "discoverer's" culture

In recorded history there are probably very few, naturally
uninhabited, places actually discovered for the first time

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