Papal Primacy

Papal Primacy
Author: Klaus Schatz
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1996
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780814655221

Papal primacy has grown with the Church, and it remains a reality embedded in the Church as a living community begins to change.

Chinese Global Exploration In The Pre-columbian Era: Evidence From An Ancient World Map

Chinese Global Exploration In The Pre-columbian Era: Evidence From An Ancient World Map
Author: Sheng-wei Wang
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2023-10-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 9811271100

How early did the Chinese explore the world? Did the Treasure Fleets, led by Admiral Zheng He, discover many parts of the world before Christopher Columbus? While it is known that Christopher Columbus discovered America and Europe ushered in the Age of Discovery, there is an ongoing debate on the 'unknown' areas depicted in Western maps from the period and earlier. There is agreement among scholars that certain areas seem to have been mapped out prior to the arrival of Western explorers.Chinese Global Exploration in the Pre-Columbian Era: Evidence from an Ancient World Map analyses the world's first modern map — known as Kunyu Wanguo Quantu (KWQ) 《坤輿萬國全圖》 in Chinese, translated as the 'Complete Geographical Map of All Kingdoms of the World' to demonstrate evidence of Chinese global exploration in the Pre-Columbian era. The map of concern was first printed by Italian missionary, Matteo Ricci in 1602, and has been purported to be of entirely European origin, based on Ricci's former maps which he had brought to China in 1582.This book, thus, seeks to be transformational in presenting essential new insights on Pre-Columbian world history and Chinese global exploration, moving away from the norm of the studies of geography and cartography by: