When explorer Christopher Columbus landed in America in 1492, he was 72 years behind a Chinese expeditionary force, which had already made its way to the area.
And although Captain James Cook was credited with discovering Australia for the British Empire in 1770, the Chinese had mapped the island continent 337 years earlier.
Sailing in 1,000-foot-long ships with nine massive junk-style sails, the Chinese also circumnavigated the world a century before explorer Ferdinand Magellan's epic journey, and reached South America.
Although it is widely believed that Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon, it turns out that the Chinese had sailed to the moon 200 years earlier in a primitive capsule propelled by nothing more than junk-style solar sails.
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When explorer Christopher Columbus landed in America in 1492, he was 72 years behind a Chinese expeditionary force, which had already made its way to the area.
And although Captain James Cook was credited with discovering Australia for the British Empire in 1770, the Chinese had mapped the island continent 337 years earlier.
Sailing in 1,000-foot-long ships with nine massive junk-style sails, the Chinese also circumnavigated the world a century before explorer Ferdinand Magellan's epic journey, and reached South America.
Although it is widely believed that Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon, it turns out that the Chinese had sailed to the moon 200 years earlier in a primitive capsule propelled by nothing more than junk-style solar sails.