--- MRachmat Rawyani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 > fleets that visited 37 countries in Southeast Asia, > the Middle East and Africa. > Liu said his main evidence that the map was a > genuine copy of one made in 1418 is a single > character, "subject", stamped onto the map and > meaning that the mapmaker was a loyal subject of the > Ming emperor. > This means the mapmaker would face the death > penalty if he was discovered to have tricked the > emperor by creating the map from more contemporary > sources, he said. > Liu, a prominent commercial lawyer, said he only > realised the significance of the map after reading > Menzies' book, "1421 - The Year China Discovered the > World", which was published in Chinese language last > May. > He said he bought the map in an antiques shop in > Shanghai in 2001 for about $500. The exact age of > the map is currently being tested in New Zealand. > The first vessels of Zheng He's original 200-ship > fleet left Nanjing on July 11, 1405, although some > accounts give a higher number of ships. > Many scholars believe that the Americas were first > colonized at least 10,000 years ago by prehistoric > people who travelled from parts of northeastern Asia > now known as Siberia and Mongolia. > They argue that cultural, linguistic and genetic > evidence suggests that prehistoric Mongoloid tribes > crossed the frozen landmass that blocked the Bering > Strait during the last Ice Age. > --DPA > > (IANS) > __________________________________________________ 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/
