They knew of India, but not much further east, and of Egypt and not much further west, and Ethiopia and Sudan and not much further south.............
“They knew of India, but not much further east, and of Egypt and not much further west, and Ethiopia and Sudan and not much further south.............”
The old testament script that knew that which Middle East people knew, but nothing distinct beyond a certain radius - not most of Asia, not most of Europe north of the Mediterranean, not most of Africa south of “north Africa” (on or connected to the north Africa lands along the Mediterranean or the Red Sea), nothing of the Americas, nothing of the arctic circle. Yet in all those places there were and hand been human civilizations.