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Crimson Dynamo | The voice of reason
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Join Date: Oct 2009
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Crimson Dynamo | The voice of reason
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 107,019
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Originally Posted by kirklancaster
You are 1000% correct Ruby -
All civilisations which were the most enlightened for their time, believed that the Earth was flat at some point in their history, including the Iron and Bronze Age Near Eastern cultures (now the Middle East) until the Hellenistic period - 323 BC to 146 BC, India until c 100 BC, China until the 1600's and ancient Greece until 6 BC.
Even in the time of Columbus, it was only educated people who knew that the Earth was round a great majority in Europe still believed in a flat earth.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth
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