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19 January, 17:01

Why didn't the Chinese discover the American continents decades before Christopher Columbus?

Chinese ships were not large enough to successfully cross the Pacific Ocean.

Chinese superstition prevented them from sailing east into the home of the rising sun

Chinese expeditions limited themselves exclusively to the Indian Ocean Basin.

The magnetic compass was a European invention that made transoceanic exploration possible.

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  1. 19 January, 18:43
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    Chinese expeditions limited themselves exclusively to the Indian Ocean Basin. but last and second option are also partly true
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