What If China Discovered Europe First?

Описание: What If China Discovered Europe First?
In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed west and changed the course of history.
But decades earlier, China had already built the largest, most advanced fleet the world had ever seen.
Between 1405 and 1433, Chinese treasure ships crossed the Indian Ocean, reaching Africa and the Middle East.
Then, almost overnight, the voyages stopped.
What if they hadn’t?
What if China continued exploring?
What if Chinese fleets reached Europe before Europeans reached Asia?
What if the global age of exploration began in Beijing instead of Lisbon?
🌍 What if Europe first encountered a civilization far more advanced than its own?
🚢 What if Chinese treasure fleets entered the Mediterranean before European caravels existed?
🏛️ What if Europe became a peripheral region in a China-centered global economy?
💰 What if wealth flowed east instead of west for centuries?
⚔️ What if colonial empires never formed the way we know them?
In this alternate timeline, the Ming Dynasty continues its maritime expansion.
Chinese fleets establish global trade routes, dominate international commerce, and reach the Americas decades before Columbus. Europe becomes a secondary player, forced to modernize in response to Chinese economic and technological dominance.
The world that follows is more interconnected — but not necessarily more equal.
Imperialism doesn’t disappear. It changes hands.
This documentary explores a world where power shifts east centuries earlier, reshaping culture, technology, religion, and global politics — and revealing how fragile and contingent history really is
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