1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance - Gavis Menzies Audiobook
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Publisher: HarperAudio
Release date: January 28, 2014
Duration: 09:52:57
The author of 1421 offers another stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence that traces the roots of the European Renaissance to Chinese exploration in the fifteenth century
The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now best-selling historian Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that in the year 1434, China—then the world’s most technologically advanced civilization—provided the spark that set the European Renaissance ablaze. From that date onward, Europeans embraced Chinese intellectual ideas, discoveries, and inventions, all of which form the basis of western civilization today.
Florence and Venice of the early fifteenth century were hubs of world trade, attracting traders from across the globe. Based on years of research, this marvelous history argues that a Chinese fleet—official ambassadors of the emperor—arrived in Tuscany in 1434, where they were received by Pope Eugenius IV in Florence. The delegation presented the influential pope with a wealth of Chinese learning from a diverse range of fields: art, geography (including world maps that were passed on to Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan), astronomy, mathematics, printing, architecture, steel manufacturing, military weaponry, and more. This vast treasure trove of knowledge spread across Europe, igniting the legendary inventiveness of the Renaissance, including the work of such geniuses as da Vinci, Copernicus, Galileo, and more.
In 1434, Gavin Menzies combines this long-overdue historical reexamination with the excitement of an investigative adventure. He brings the reader aboard the remarkable Chinese fleet as it sails from China to Cairo and Florence, and then back across the world. Erudite and brilliantly reasoned, 1434 will change the way we see ourselves, our history, and our world.
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This post has 6 comments with rating of 5/5
October 9th, 2021
That busy Chinese fleet also landed on the Moon centuries before the slowpokey Apollo mission.
Columbus’ calculations were wrong - does this mean that we can finally blame the globetrotting Chinese armada?
October 9th, 2021
“Reappraisal,” “reexamination,” “investigative adventure,” and all that crap! But they sure landed the starring role in Covid’s arrival at the port of Napoli, from where it spread all over Italia and Europe.
October 10th, 2021
Thanks. This looks fascinating
October 10th, 2021
Thank you so much
October 11th, 2021
Thank You for the upload. Quite a lengthly listen which I did over the last 24 hours. Quite plausible considering the world still functions on nation state espionage. For all the debunkers the world was a completely different place in 1400, 95% of the population was illiterate peasants farmers.
I’ve often wondered what Queen Seondeok of Silla grew up knowing living in the Taklamakan Desert in roughly 632 AD because it has been referenced she knew how to guide silk road caravans better at night through the desert than during the daytime high temperatures due to the stars. Queen Seondeok of Silli is also noted for building the earliest astronomical observatory, the Cheomseongdae, in Gyeongju, South Korea.
For anyone who has read about the early battles of Ghingis Khan he launched sweeping multi-front perfectly timed raids with different armies for multi-prong battle fronts several hundred if not thousands of miles wide and timed them precisely as if he had access to modern day GPS and radio. I suspect in subjugating the Western Xia (Tangut) and Jin Chinese he may have captured Chinese scholars educated in observing the heavens and calculating latitude and longitude and did not simply use advance scouts and riders 100% as we’ve been educated to expect.
Of course what I’m going to see in the comments following my reply is something along the lines of “learning be for fools’…….
A papal delegation, led by Giovanni da Plano Carpini was in contact with the then Great Khan Güyük (he was the son of Genghis Khan’s eldest son Ögedei Khan). In November 1246, the papal delegation was allowed to leave Karakorum with a response in Mongol, Latin, and Arabic from the Great Khan. Towards the end of 1247, they found the Pope in Lyon and delivered to him their report and the Great Khan’s letter.
He absolutely tore the Pope a new one if you’ve ever read the actual letter from the Khan to the Pope. Any Chinese delegation of the Ming would not have been welcome once the Mongol Yuan dynasty of Kublai Khan collapsed in 1370. Japan is in possession of a highly detailed Yuan Chinese dynasty map that if I remember correctly is a roll map close to 20 feet long. However this does fit with what Marco Polo had wrote centuries ago in his travels.
The Cheomseongdae still stands and it was built in 632 to 747 AD. King Sejong of Joseon had a terrible dispute with the Chinese over the issue of lunar observatories in 1442. Jang Yeong-sil is revered tot his day in South Korea and there was recently a great movie released about his life in the court of King Sejong. Also the Korean celestial globe first made by the scientist Jang Yeong-sil during the Joseon dynasty under the reign of King Sejong the Great of Joseon is a national treasure.
Marco Polo arrived at Khanbaliq via the silk road overland, he was forced to return via the Maritime Silk Road route to Venice due to the disintegration of the unified Mongol empire.
A lot of good information is contained in Gavin Menzies 1421 and 1434 novels because it is plausible.
Many people reject this book’s theory and history in general it but is documented history and they will not be persuaded anyway, they are being purposefully obtuse in intellectually dishonest. Dogma has never been able to be countered with science.
October 10th, 2025
Pure Fiction
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