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zipplewrath

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4. Columbus the Myth

Reply to redgreenandblue (Original post)

Mon Oct 14, 2013, 10:54 AM

Oct 2013

There are many modern misconceptions about Columbus that exist within a rather uneducated population. My favorite being the whole "they thought the earth was flat" schtick. There was practically no one who knew anything about navigation or sailing that though the earth was flat. As you say, not only did they know it was round, but they knew roughly how big it was, except for Columbus apparently. And he as far from the first European to get there, at least in the sense of the American continent. And it is apparent that Africans had been there for some time.

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