ElHeim t1_ixvgzjd wrote
Reply to comment by bafangoolNJ in Researchers in Galicia open 15th-century tomb to test Columbus link theory. Explorer is generally believed to have been born in Italy in 1451 but some argue he was in fact born in Spain by ArtOak
For additional perspective, there's also been the claim that a famous Chinese captain "discovered" the New World some 70 years earlier.
But it's all irrelevant for the same reason: the Chinese were about to get totally focused on themselves, they didn't share the discovery. Actually, if it happened, they actively suppressed all knowledge of it.
No further contact, no spreading of the knowledge = no impact.
It's like when you invent some new device. if you sit on it and someone else creates the same thing, then patents it, they get all the credit.
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