[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by rubymoo

For how do they know this i meant to say, how do they know that people thought the Earth was flat/round, people in the very early years thought the Earth was flat, but as knowledge grew it was found that the Earth was round, for those that say it was a myth that people was believed to think the Earth was flat i ask, how do you know this, were you around to explore peoples beliefs at this time? No nobody was around, all we have to go on is what was written, and since there is very little to go on in the early years and i'm talking 3 BC, then we can't say that these people didn't believe the Earth was flat, just as we can't say what happens after death, because we just don't know.

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.