Rediscovering America’s link to Chinese exploration

(Stock image via Pinterest)China was arguably the most sophisticated society on Earth in the 1400s, leaving historians to wonder why the Chinese — rather than Europeans — failed to discover and then dominate the New World.
This August in Sitka, scholars and researchers met to consider the China question — and other ideas in alternative Anthropology — in the ninth annual Paths Across the Pacific Conference.
In 2002 an author by the name of Gavin Menzies argued that the Chi