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The Ming sea-ban follows Zheng He's treasure fleets. Constantinople falls; the Greek corpus lands in the West in the same decades a press in Mainz is striking one page hundreds of times from a single setting of type. Columbus opens the sea-road in 1492.
In plain words
China's Ming emperors ban sea voyages after Zheng He's treasure fleets; Constantinople falls and its Greek books reach the West just as a press in Mainz prints pages by the hundred; Columbus crosses in 1492. The Ming ban is the counter-case: a civilisation that built the road and then burned it.
The mechanism
ROADS BEFORE PAYLOAD — and the Ming ban is the counter-case that proves the mechanism: a civilisation that laid the road and then burned it
How it was checked
- EvidenceT5 INDEPENDENT SECULAR; Status: COMMITTED; a release
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- Plate — Flyleaf illustration, Tianfei jing ("Heavenly Princess Classics"), 1420 · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zheng_He's_visits_to_the_West_on_the_book_"Heavenly_Princess_Classics"_1420.jpg
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