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To: fishtank

Silk road and other trade routes probably gave info about the Pacific, but the west coast of South America is unexplained if one continues to insist on no pre-Columbian contact by places like China, Japan and India.


11 posted on 12/04/2007 9:07:15 AM PST by From many - one.
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To: From many - one.

I think you’re right. Plus the monastery in which the map was made/copied could have been acting as a central clearing house for other maps. Hence you get new maps that draw on several older souces, picking & chosing from the best available information. Kinda like the late Middle Ages equivalent of Rand-McNally.


38 posted on 12/04/2007 3:06:14 PM PST by Tallguy (Climate is what you plan for, weather is what you get.)
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