Posted on 08/07/2019 11:58:52 AM PDT by Perseverando
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1491 is illuminative. I have read it and reread it.
thanx just got it
It sent me to reading whatever comes up about the now obvious civilization that was in Amazonia and puts the lie to the greenies yelling about Primeval Forests and the Rain Forest being untouched and “natural” since the dawn of time.
This question is a good question. Truth is “he already knew” for sure from previous secret maps and the Greek and Arab records there was indeed another continent, but he was not sure and misfigured “how far” it was to the Americas... The “to India” stuff was all a lie that had to be followed through with to gain funding. He initially and secretly set sail for exactly what he did find... Atlantis...
Turns out that was a rumor started to make the Anglican church look inept. They knew long before it was not flat.
WARS SLAVERY AND DISEASE ARE AWLAYS USED TO EXCORIATE THE EUROPEANS. SO I WAS INTERESTED IN THOSE ISSUES AS RELATED TO THE INDIANS BEFORE THE EUROPEANS CAME.
Belive there was a slipway (place to drag ships across land) or ancient canal between the NIle river and the Red Sea.
Are those mountain ranges, or is that a map of San Francisco?
And what did you find? That Amazonia has been cultivated and civilized since the timeline of Gobekli Tepe 12k ago or more? If so you are absolutely right.
Hard to sail boats on land.
Pretty much. The mainstream Archaeologists have stopped trashing theoe who have made these discoveries. They are so obvious now that denying them is like denying the existence of England.
I required my children to read it once in Jr hi and once in High school. They are totally immune to the utopias of the Left and to mercantilism and to government promises and we almost never talk about politics. You read and understand that book you cannot be snowed by any arguments for government pro-avtive solutions to anything or to any Keynes BS or any other “modern” economics.
Here is a concept not often explored or considered. I have even criticized the head of the world maritime university about this. Why a slipway? Why drag ships? The concept is completely impractical on it’s face.
Why is it that everything having to do with ships/vessels requires “portage”, or the towing of smaller vessels? Why is it that when looking at the history of sea travel, only certain ports and vessel construction sites are considered as sources of all vessels?
The Vikings could not land a vessel on one shore and then hike across land and build another vessel as needed with axes as they were constructed originally in the great lakes? Couldn’t happen because they had to find a way to drag one across land and use it again which is totally impractical and stupid? Seafarers did not have land legs or intelligence at all?
The head of the world maritime university once said in a video that the only way the Vikings could have reached the great lakes is if they also towed several smaller vessels behind their ships to do it. And that ALL vessels could have only been made in one or two shipyards. And that there was no way they could drag even those over land.
Wait? really? They were not capable of just building new vessels as needed on the other side of the “by foot” land crossing? Knowledge, skill, axes and trees equal ships no matter where you happen to be. Skills, knowledge and labor did not require to be dragged across land with special very impractical efforts.
This narrative and consensus is starting to bug me. Just because we would be stupid enough to think and require this does not mean our predecessors were actually that inept. This one huge difference of perspective completely changes the “assumed” history of sea travel. They did not have unions and “not my job” or “not certified to do that” policies.
Yep, we are still using rumor and false media headlines to narrate history...
Quite an amazing tale. I wonder why we were never taught this in screwl? Not even 60 or more years ago? I wonder?
Europe.
You don’t even try, you pack your iron/copper tools and build a new one as needed on the other side after crossing the land by foot or beast. It is a very simple and practical concept.
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