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Larry Belling

Larry Belling

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Esmond Bradley Martin

Esmond Bradley Martin

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1421: The Year China Discovered the World

20044.7 / 10120 min
Documentary

Overview

This documentary examines the controversial theory that a Chinese Ming Dynasty fleet, led by Zheng He, sailed past the Cape of Good Hope and crossed the Atlantic to discover the Americas, decades before Christopher Columbus.