Word: standaert
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...about the map, especially its use of language, has led professional historians to view it with suspicion. "If you look at the text, there are really some things that are a bit strange," says Nicolas Standaert, an expert on the Ming era at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Standaert points to passages circled in red?which the map's legend says are copied from the 1418 map?that contain words or terms not used at that time. Among them is the map's word for the Christian God and its description of what is now the South China...
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