Monday, August 15, 2011

language maps of Africa, Asia and the America

The most concetrated areas are around central africa, south america, indonesia and southern china. Indonesia is very open and was populated by many countries with different languages. Russia has a very small amout of languages and iceland also ahs not very many languages once languages start to die it is very hard to chnage human acceptance and normals in a society so if it starts tro decline it will most likely keep declining through generations untill it is gone.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

provocative revisionist historical argument: That China circumnavigated and mapped the globe centuries before the European explorers of the 15th and 16th centuries.

First argument about Chinese being on NZ because of horses:
A number of critics have emailed me about the size of the tankers required by Zheng He`s fleets to provide water for horses, arguing that the limiting factor on the number of horses was the number of water tankers; it would have been impossible to desalinate anywhere near enough water to satisfy more than a handful of horses as each needs about three gallons a day. Now, apply this to the Maori scenario, travelling from Tahiti to New Zealand in open canoes. They must have brought at least two horses to breed as one pregnant mare would not produce a line. I have taken my submarine from New Zealand to Tahiti; the seas are short and choppy most of the year which makes for a difficult journey which would probably have taken at least six weeks. Horses drink more in exposed conditions of high humidity such as spray in an open boat, so the consumption is likely to have been at least five gallons a day per horse, which for a six-week journey amounts to 420 gallons or around a ton of water per animal. Then, of course, the animals would have needed hay, and that`s not to mention food and water for the boats` crews. I submit that it would have been impossible for Maoris to bring horses to New Zealand. The wild Kaimanawa ponies of North Island must therefore have been brought by others, either Europeans or Chinese. DNA tests are in hand for the Kaimanawa, the Pasos of Peru, the Assateagues of the islands off Virginia and the Kiger Mustangs of North America. I believe their common ancestor will turn out to be the blood horses of Tajikistan which were the mounts of the Chinese cavalry


Second view on that horses were brought in NZ in 1840

Europeans introduced horses to New Zealand from the early 19th century. At first horses were uncommon and expensive, so only chiefs owned them. Government officials often gifted horses to chiefs as a sign of goodwill.
Hapū (sub-tribes) banded together to buy horses, paying for them with large numbers of pigs or quantities of flax. Horses made overland travel faster, and probably helped bring neighbouring hapū and iwi (tribes) closer together.
From the 1840s, some tribes had significant numbers of horses and were able to gift them to other iwi. In some areas, Māori owned more horses than local Pākehācommunities. By the 1850s, horses were the main form of land transport for Māori.
Horses were used by all iwi involved in the New Zealand wars of the 1860s.


The second view is vastly different from the first as it states that the first horses seen by Maori are in the late 1800's where as the the first view thinks that horses are brought into NZ much much earlier. I think that because or knowledge on information can change vastly e.g shape of the world or the revolution of the solar system this means that a new theory can be accepted if it has the evidence to back it up and if the first view can be proved then I can accept it but the second view is more realistic as it has been known and accepted for much longer. So as long as the first view about horses can be proven then i think is is plausible