Guns, Germs, and Steel

[allybhoy]

Originally posted by ike7
The Chinese ignoring ocean-faring vessels.

It's interesting to wonder if that emperor decided to not scrap all the ocean faring vessels and discovered the Americas centuries ahead of Europe. This would be quite a different world altogether.

read 1421, it theorises that China did discover the Americas, and Australia and even left colonies there, they worked out accurate navigation and then because of the Emporer's palace burning down they turned their back on ocean travel

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553815229/qid=1140447189/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/203-8122547-2082302

[Solver]

This is, at best, off-topic. And some of the comments here aren't exactly appropriate.

Take the discussion about the development of different continents to the off-topic forum if you must, but stay well clear of racist remarks.