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There's a good We're Not So Different about it. The Chinese Emperor built giant ships to show off their wealth and got across to Ethiopia on Africa.
They almost certainly could have made to the West Coast of North America either open water or hugging coastlines.
They ended up scrapping them to focus internally.
Had they kept it up it could have spread their technology to Africa, Oceania and the America's. And in turn kept up with advances in the middle East and Europe.
Like it's really different timeline.
Interesting. Thanks.
Which episode?
Ep 163 weird medieval
Also 129 what if