According to a british historian, it can be proved with much evidence that Zheng He had discovered most parts of the world in the middle of the 15th century. On March 15, 2002 he introduced his researches to more than 200 diplomats, scholars, and bookmen at the Royal Geographical Society.
The Italian navigator Christopher Columbus arrived in America on Oct.12, 1492, and a new era of European exploration and expansion began. A 14-year study on the activities of the Chinese fleet during 1421 to 1423 told the historian that with many valuables, silk, and porcelain on his ships Zheng He was the first man completing the first circumnavigation of the globe one century earlier than Ferdinand Magellan during 1519-1522
No one has explained that why European explorers had maps in their hands at that time, and who had drawn the maps? It was a large ocean extending there and a large armada was necessary for drawing those maps. So who would be the map drawers if not the Chinese commanding the wo ...more

Americo Vespucci

Why shud somebody discover America?
The land was already there for 1000s of years, and it had its inhabitants too.
It is only a question of the disaster of white man finding a way to the place from Europe !

Before Captain cook's reaching ; America was already in existence on that place ;- ))