Perkara pulo-pulo, aya wartos cenah mah anu pangheulana nimu benua Amerika teh sanes columbus tapi laksamana Cheng Ho ti nagri Cina (anu dikenal oge di Indonesia). Manehna teh ninjak taneuh Amerika 70 taun sateuacanna Columbus. Ieu beja teh ceuk salah sahiji media di Cina, hasil panalungtikan ti para ahli, dimana aya peta-peta anu nembe katimu ahir-ahir ieu.(wartosna aya dihandap).Cheng Ho oge cenah mah tos ka Kutub kidul, margi salah sahiji paninggalanana teh aya peta kutub kidul sagala.
Ceuk beja oge, saleresna urang Bugis anu sok balayar, kantos ka australia miheulaan bangsa Barat. malihan mah ceuk sakaol urang Bugis oge tos berlayar dugi ka Amerika satueacanna Columbus. Ngan hanjakal, jigana sabada balayar teh heunteu terasa ngadamel peta tetengger pikeun palaut sejenna. baktos, mrachmatrawyani > http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=221618&cat=Asia > > Map proves China reached America first, say > scholars > Beijing | January 16, 2006 10:15:06 PM IST > The rediscovery of an old map apparently depicting > the Chinese view of the world in 1418 backs claims > that a Chinese seafarer reached America at least 70 > years before Columbus, scholars said Monday. > The 1763 map was copied from a map dated 1418 that > shows every continent, according to its owner and > antiquities collector Liu Gang, who presented a copy > of the map in Beijing on Monday evening. > It is believed to offer further evidence that > Chinese admiral Zheng He sailed to the Americas well > before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492, > Liu and British naval historian Gavin Menzies said. > "This map tells me Zheng He discovered the world," > Liu told reporters. > The map depicts and briefly describes America, > Africa and Europe, but the British Isles are missing > from it and California is shown as an island. > It shows the world's oceans and many major islands > and rivers, including what is now the Potomac River > on which Washington DC is located. > Menzies and Liu claim there is also evidence that > European explorers Christopher Columbus, Vasco da > Gama and Ferdinand Magellan "used copies of this map > to reach the New World". > "Zheng He and his fleet discovered the American > continent before Columbus was even born. They also > circumnavigated and charted the globe, a century > before the Europeans," Menzies was quoted as saying > in a press statement. > If the claims of Liu and Menzies are correct, it > would mean would mean Zheng He's fleet had taken no > more than 13 years to navigate and map the entire > globe. > Zheng He was born into a Chinese Hui Muslim family > in the southwestern province of Yunnan in 1371, > according to Chinese historians. He rose through the > ranks after he was recruited as a promising eunuch > for the Ming dynasty imperial household at the age > of ten. > From 1405 to his death in 1433, he led seven __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Komunitas Urang Sunda --> http://www.Urang-Sunda.or.id Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/urangsunda/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
