Kris Woolley wrote:

>from China  they did not make long voyages because of fear and superstition in the 1400s.
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Nah - they got around pretty good, working their way through Indonesia
and along the African coast.  thousands of miles.  I would say that they
can be considered to have made long voyages.  Did they discover
america?  I don't know.  Did they bring bees?  Now that is certainly a
stretch.   It makes sense that they would ahve horses and other live
stock to use and feed the salors.  But bees would be of no use in the
open ocean.  The 7 voyages were trading missions by and large, not to
establish colonies.  Did said chinese even keep AM at that time?

>Bees were in central america before the pilgrims, brought here via the middle east according to the B of M, a scripture account,  by sea voyagers of Hebrew decent.
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What is the B of M?

Keith

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