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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They didnt have to sail to Africa per say. By the time of those trips, there had been a reliable trade network for more than 1500 years stretching from Africa up through the Middle East into India.

I don't doubt that it'd be possible to harbour hop those boats down to Africa, but they only needed to go as far as India/Persia to connect.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They did sail to Africa. It's well documented in primary and secondary sources. They made a map with Africa on it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Kun_map

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yes, but there is still doubt:

It has also been suggested by J.J.L. Duyvendak and Paul Pelliot that the map may have been partly based on Arab nautical charts.[10]