USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -For many centuries, Japan did not have much of an incentive to go exploring farther, since it had two wealthy trading partners next door.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Japanese were two busy fighting each other at the time Europeans were exploring the world. They had a fishing culture but did not have an interest in discovering new lands. The Korean and other eastern Asian countries had more wealth and opportunities for colonization.

Detailed explanation-3: -Firstly, it was easier for Europeans to cross the Atlantic than for Chinese to cross the Pacific. Secondly, Europeans were motivated by the desire to access China’s legendary wealth whereas Chinese had no such incentive for exploration.

Detailed explanation-4: -NEW YORK: History may be rewritten as new evidence suggests ancient Chinese explorers landed on the New World around 2, 500 years before Christopher Columbus, contrary to popular belief that the Italian seafarer ‘discovered’ America.

Detailed explanation-5: -* The Japanese may have sailed to the Americas long before Columbus. Thousands of years before Christopher Columbus or any Europeans “discovered” America, the Western Hemisphere was found and settled again and again by Chinese and Japanese sailors.