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Originally Posted by aka123
What fucking tale? It was the times belief about Earth's form. And even if some scholars might have known the truth, the concensus didn't change based on that. Earth being roundish isn't that obvious as you might think, not to mention the proof about it.
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The point that you don't seem to comprehend is there was information available to those with access about Earth being round. AMoung much more inormation I'm quite sure and handed down to those with the power and privy to the knowldge for thousands of years.
There were already people on the North American continent thousands of years before. The Vikings or Columbus which ever you wish to believe didn't in all actuality discover anything. Who did first is in itself up in the air. Either way I'd venture to say neither of them sailed out without knowing what they were looking for.