From that date onward, Europeans embraced Chinese intellectual ideas, discoveries, and inventions, all of which form the basis of western civilization today.-From 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. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-345) and index
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