On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set
sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to
collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas." When the
fleet returned home in October 1423, the emperor had fallen,
leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships were
left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys
were destroyed. Lost in the long, self-imposed isolation that
followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America
seventy years before Columbus and had circumnavigated the globe a
century before Magellan. And they colonized America before the
Europeans, transplanting the principal economic crops that have
since fed and clothed the world.
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