Ian Hudson: 1434, The Year China Ignited the European Renaissance

Earth Ancients

Cliff Dunning

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2019

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

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 bestselling 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 ideas, discoveries, and inventions, all of which form the basis of Western civilization today.

The New York Times bestselling author of 1421 combines a long-overdue historical reexamination with the excitement of an investigative adventure, bringing 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.

Gavin Menzies is the bestselling author of 1421: The Year China Discovered America; 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance; and The Lost Empire of Atlantis: History's Greatest Mystery Revealed. He served in the Royal Navy between 1953 and 1970. His knowledge of seafaring and navigation sparked his interest in the epic voyages of Chinese admiral Zheng He. Menzies lives in London.

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0:16.1	This week we head to China and a look at the way the Chinese circumnavigated the world in their massive ships and this is outlined in the book 1434 the year a magnificent Chinese fleet sailed to Italy and ignited the Renaissance by Gavin Mendez and his co-author Ian Hudson.
0:22.6	We're going to look at exactly the influence
0:25.9	the Chinese had on the Italians and throughout Europe
0:29.6	and some of the new eye-opening details of Leonardo da Vinci's inventions and just
0:36.3	where he got the ideas behind some of his magnificent machines. Later we're going to
0:42.1	hear from a research investigator who has found the best evidence I've
0:46.1	seen of a city on the planet Mars right up to the streets and buildings, some of them as tall as several hundred feet, and resident
0:55.9	archaeologist Jindeo takes us to ancient Sumaria, shows us the evidence of a star map that plots accurately the impact of an
1:06.6	asteroid on the Earth over 3,000 years ago. Just an amazing discovery.
1:13.6	All this in the news today on Earth Ancients. Please go and
1:25.0	and a little bit of a little bit of a little Oh, yeah. For Saturday, July 27th, 2019, this is Earth Ancients. I'm your host Cliff Dunning.
1:57.0	Hello, how you doing?
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2:31.6	I was talking about the figuring that I had in my collection and a number of others that are very similar of what some anthropologists considered shamans outfits and I have talked about this
2:47.7	before this image in my estimation is wearing a full space suit including helmet with receiver, microphone, a full zero atmosphere suit and all the trimmings and I am been asked to write an article about it and I am
3:11.5	writing an article for Ancient Origins magazine which will be
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