China: 1421

So What

Here's a Happy Meal for Ivy League educators, and other Western Civ haters.  The claim is "that Chinese seafarers and concubines settled in Malaysia, India, Africa, the Americas, Australasia, and across the Pacific, almost a century before the Europeans started their historic voyages of exploration." Whoop-di-doo.That's more adventuresome than the Cold War era Soviet claim that communists invented baseball, or Leonard Jeffries' assertion that every advance in  history was made by blacks, but whites stole the patents, or anything that Al Gore says.  Here's why. What  matters is impact, as in who cared? The Columbus voyage changed the world, any others are drops of gull poop in the sand.  No Chinese invention, gunpowder, or chopsticks, meant anything until the West adavnced it.  Learn it, love it, and get over it.