John Green (who is hilarious) compares Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and the Chinese admiral Zeng He
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4 comments:
Pretty funny! I wish my old teacher would've shown me this when I first learned about them... worth the watch.
very cool stuff. interesting video. honestly, better than my high school professors haha
love it! love john green! always keeping my interested.
Wow it's crazy that half of the world could be speaking Spanish and the other in Portuguese. It would make it easier to communicate though since there would only be two languages to learn.
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