▶ Your Answer : In this established topic, both the reading passage and the speaker discuss several aspects of whether the evidence that the chinese had explored America before Columbus arrived is real or not. The reading pasaage claims that there are some evidence which show that the chinese more faster had arrived at America than Columbus. The speaker argues that the assertion made in the reading passage are wrong. This casts doubt on the reading passage's claim.
To begin with, in contrast to the reading passage, the speaker discusses that the old map is fake. The reason is that the old chinese map made much later. Because two hemisphier concept in this map were not in chinese. Besides, the text in the map were transmitted into chineses from Jesuit maps 17C. This contradicts the reading passage's claim that there is an old map shows how the world appeared in 1418. On top of that,the speaker claims that the presence of artifacts can not prove that chinese had explored America before Columbus. Especially explaining, if it is true, chinese had to left marked far more obviously. However there are only few coins, it is not evident. This refutes the reading passage's argument that the presence of pre-Columbian Chinese artifacts indicates that the Chinese discovered North America prior to Columbus.
Finally, the speaker argues that the lacquering technique is just coincidence. In details, for example, Egypt's pyramide and America's pyramide are similar , but both two countries were not contact before. This opoeses the reading passage's assertion that a traditional Chinese lacquering technique was in use in Mexico prior to Columbus's arrival.
In conclusion, the speaker challenges the explanation from the reading passage on account of the reasons stated above. |